Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 14
"On the summit of mount Olympus, in a forest of dwarf firs, lay an old stag.
What happens: lay · To what, where: old stag, summit
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 summit | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 summit | det |
| 4 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Olympus | case |
| 6 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Olympus | compound |
| 7 | Olympus | Olympus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 summit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forest | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 summit | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 firs | case |
| 13 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 firs | amod |
| 14 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 forest | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 summit | punct |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stag | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stag | amod |
| 19 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | present | a old stag | the summit of mount Olympus and a forest of dwarf firs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stag=Theme on summit=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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