Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 37

The matches now lay between a tinder-box and an old iron saucepan, and were talking about their youthful days. '

Who acts: matches · What happens: lie, talk · To what, where: tinder box

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matches), 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 matches	det
2	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	9 box	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
7	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 box	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tinder	punct
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saucepan	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 saucepan	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saucepan	amod
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saucepan	compound
14	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 box	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talking	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 talking	aux
18	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 days	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 days	nmod:poss
21	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 talking	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the matches			a tinder box and a old iron saucepan	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between box=Location
2	talk	past · progressive	the matches not said here				day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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