Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 156
Again the echo sounded from the hills on which the snow lay.
Who acts: echo, snow · What happens: sound, lay · To what, where: hills
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 (echo, snow), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 echo | det |
| 3 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sounded | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hills | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the echo | the hills | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the snow | the hills | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on which=Destination |
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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