Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 17

The goblin laid the tongue upon the cask, in which lay a quantity of old newspapers.

Who acts: goblin · What happens: lay, lie · To what, where: tongue, cask, quantity

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin), 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 goblin	det
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tongue	det
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 cask	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cask	det
8	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 quantity	det
14	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 newspapers	case
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 newspapers	amod
17	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 quantity	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the goblin	the tongue		the cask			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme upon cask=Destination
2	lie	past		a quantity of old newspapers					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quantity=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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