Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 23

At length I lay down to rest on the shores of Zeeland, near to the great house of Borreby, where the splendid forest of oaks still flourished.

Who acts: I, splendid forest · What happens: lay down, rest, flourish · To what, where: length, shores

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, splendid forest), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shores	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shores	det
10	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rest	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Zeeland	case
12	Zeeland	Zeeland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 shores	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
14	near	near	ADP	_	18 house	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Borreby	case
20	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flourished	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 flourished	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 forest	amod
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flourished	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 oaks	case
27	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 forest	nmod
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 flourished	advmod
29	flourished	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 house	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	I	length		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination
2	rest	to-infinitive	I not said here	the shores of Zeeland			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
3	flourish	past	the splendid forest of oaks		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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