Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 26
Between the pages of the Bible it still lay when, a few weeks afterwards, that Bible was laid under the young girl's head in her coffin.
Who acts: flower · What happens: lay, page · To what, where: pages, Bible, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 pages | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pages | det |
| 3 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bible | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bible | det |
| 6 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pages | nmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 weeks | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 weeks | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weeks | amod |
| 14 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obl |
| 15 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 laid | mark |
| 18 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laid | aux:pass |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lay | conj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 girl | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 coffin | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | flower | the pages of the Bible | still; week | afterwards property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between page=Destination | ||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | Bible | the young girl's head | in heart's coffin | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under head=Destination | |||
| 3 | page | the Bible | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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