Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 84
The body fell forward, and lay at full length on the ground as one dead.
Who acts: body · What happens: fall, lay · To what, where: full length
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 length | amod |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 length | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 dead | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 dead | nummod |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the body | forward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the body not said here | full length on the ground | as one dead | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as dead=Attribute |
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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