Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 20

During some days in summer, the sunbeams would lie on the floor of the cellar for about half an hour.

Who acts: sunbeams · What happens: lie · To what, where: floor

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 (sunbeams), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lie	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sunbeams	det
8	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lie	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	aux
10	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cellar	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cellar	det
16	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floor	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 hour	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 half	advmod
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	21 hour	det:predet
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	would	the sunbeams			the floor of the cellar	day; hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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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