Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 32
The sunshine lay among the flowers, but no Story.
Who acts: sunshine · What happens: lie · To what, where: flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunshine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sunshine | det |
| 2 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 flowers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flowers | det |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Story | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 Story | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 Story | det |
| 10 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the sunshine | the flowers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among flower=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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