Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 78
I lay on my back in the boat, Anastasia leaned against me, while the stars above us glittered more brightly than the lamps in our church.
Who acts: I, Anastasia, stars · What happens: lay, learn, glitter · To what, where: back
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 (I, Anastasia, stars), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaned | punct |
| 10 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 leaned | nsubj |
| 11 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leaned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glittered | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 glittered | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stars | det |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glittered | nsubj |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 stars | nmod |
| 20 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 leaned | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 brightly | advmod |
| 22 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 20 glittered | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 lamps | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lamps | det |
| 25 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glittered | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 church | nmod:poss |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lamps | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | I | my back | in the boat | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | learn | past | Anastasia | against me | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | glitter | past | the stars above us | than the lamps in our church; brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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