Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 13

Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow street, in which lay a large heap of straw, ashes, and sweepings from the houses of people who had removed.

Who acts: flowers, angel · What happens: remain, hover, lie, remove · To what, where: sweepings, small narrow street, large heap, people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, angel), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 remained	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hovered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hovered	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 angel	det
7	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hovered	nsubj
8	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	14 street	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 street	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 street	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 small	punct
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 street	amod
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hovered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hovered	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 heap	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heap	amod
21	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 straw	case
23	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heap	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ashes	punct
25	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heap	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sweepings	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sweepings	cc
28	sweepings	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remained	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 houses	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 houses	det
31	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sweepings	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 people	case
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 houses	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 removed	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 removed	aux
36	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 people	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	remain	past	flowers = flower	sweepings from the houses of people	here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hover	past	the angel		a small narrow street	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over street=Location
3	lie	past		a large heap of straw and ashes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=Theme
4	remove	past · perfect · passive		people		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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