Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 38
There lay the beautiful, blooming girl, dreaming of him whom she loved so, and who was now, she supposed, travelling far away over mountain and sea.
Who acts: girl · What happens: lie, bloom, dream, love, be, suppose · To what, where: beautiful blooming girl, mountain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blooming | punct |
| 6 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreaming | punct |
| 9 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lay | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dreaming | obl |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 loved | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreaming | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 loved | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 supposed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 supposed | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 now | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 now | cop |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 supposed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 supposed | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 supposed | nsubj |
| 23 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 travelling | punct |
| 25 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 supposed | advcl |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 away | advmod |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 travelling | advmod |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 mountain | case |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 travelling | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sea | cc |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mountain | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the beautiful blooming girl | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | of elf | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | love | past | girl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | now property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | suppose | past | girl | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | travel | gerund | girl not said here | mountain and sea | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory |
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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