Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 110

She drew nearer, she stopped to look at the hat; "Ha! what was lying yonder?"

Who acts: Anne · What happens: draw, stop, look, lie

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 drew	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stopped	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 hat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hat	det
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
14	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	18 lying	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Ha	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 lying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	aux
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drew	advcl
19	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	18 lying	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Anne	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	Anne		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	Anne not said here	at the hat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hat=Theme
4	lie in a quote	past · progressive		yonder property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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