Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 132
Every thought of our souls lay clear before us.
Who acts: thought · What happens: lie, think · To what, where: souls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 souls | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 souls | nmod:poss |
| 5 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | nmod |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | every thought of our souls | before us | clear property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before we=Location | |||
| 2 | think | our souls | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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