Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 128

The year was now far advanced, and upon the fallen, yellow leaves, lay the queen of the year, looking up with mild eyes at a gleaming star, and her husband stood by her.

Who acts: year, husband · What happens: be, fall, lay, look up, gleam, stand · To what, where: queen, fallen yellow leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, husband), 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 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 advanced	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 advanced	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 advanced	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 advanced	advmod
6	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
11	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 leaves	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fallen	punct
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leaves	punct
16	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 advanced	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 queen	det
18	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 year	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 queen	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looking	punct
23	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lay	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 looking	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
26	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eyes	amod
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looking	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 star	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 star	det
30	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 star	amod
31	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stood	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stood	cc
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 husband	nmod:poss
35	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stood	nsubj
36	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 advanced	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stood	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 advanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the year			now	advanced, far property	tree rules
2	fall	participle						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	present		the queen of the year	the fallen yellow leaves			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme upon leaf=Destination
4	look up	gerund					with mild eyes; at a gleaming star	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme
5	gleam	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	queen's husband				by queen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by she=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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