Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 14

There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other rubbish not pleasant to see.

What happens: lie, see · To what, where: fragments

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lay	expl
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 plates	case
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fragments	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pieces	punct
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plates	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 plaster	case
9	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pieces	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rags	punct
11	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plaster	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hats	punct
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hats	amod
14	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fragments	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rubbish	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rubbish	cc
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rubbish	amod
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	parataxis
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 pleasant	advmod
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rubbish	amod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pleasant	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		fragments of plates and pieces of plaster and rags and old hats		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fragment=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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