Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 33
The roots were covered with earth, and fresh turf was laid on top.
What happens: cover, lay · To what, where: roots, fresh turf, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 roots | det |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turf | amod |
| 10 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | aux:pass |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 covered | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the roots | with earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with earth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | fresh turf | top | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on top=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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