Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 7
There lay the goloshes, which the watchman had forgotten.
Who acts: watchman · What happens: lie, forget · To what, where: goloshes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goloshes | det |
| 4 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgotten | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 forgotten | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 watchman | det |
| 8 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgotten | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | aux |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 goloshes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the goloshes | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location golosh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | the watchman | the goloshes | tree rules |
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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