Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 162
It was a bright day when she came to herself, and two men were raising her up; but she was not lying in the churchyard, but on the sea-shore, where she had dug a deep hole in the sand, and cut her hand with a piece of broken glass, whose sharp stern was stuck in a little block of painted wood.
Who acts: voice, name, two men, sharp stern · What happens: be, come, raise up, not lie, dig, cut · To what, where: bright day, name, churchyard, deep hole, sand, hand
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 (voice, name, two men, sharp stern), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 herself | case |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raising | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 raising | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 raising | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raising | aux |
| 16 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 raising | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 raising | compound:prt |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 lying | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 lying | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lying | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lying | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 lying | advmod |
| 24 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 churchyard | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 churchyard | det |
| 27 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lying | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shore | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 shore | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 shore | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shore | det |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shore | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 sea | punct |
| 34 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lying | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dug | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 dug | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 dug | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 dug | aux |
| 39 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 shore | acl:relcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 hole | det |
| 41 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hole | amod |
| 42 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dug | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 sand | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sand | det |
| 45 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hole | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 cut | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 cut | cc |
| 48 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 hand | nmod:poss |
| 50 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 cut | obj |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 piece | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 piece | det |
| 53 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 cut | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 glass | case |
| 55 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 glass | amod |
| 56 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 piece | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 stuck | punct |
| 58 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 60 stern | nmod:poss |
| 59 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 stern | amod |
| 60 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 stuck | nsubj |
| 61 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 stuck | cop |
| 62 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 piece | conj |
| 63 | in | in | ADP | _ | 66 block | case |
| 64 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 66 block | det |
| 65 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 block | amod |
| 66 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 stuck | obl |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 69 wood | case |
| 68 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 69 wood | amod |
| 69 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 block | nmod |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | voice | a bright day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | name | name | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | raise up | past · progressive | two men | name | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not lie | past · progressive | name | the churchyard | on the sea shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in churchyard=Location | |||
| 5 | dig | past · perfect | name | a deep hole | the sand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in sand=Location | |||
| 6 | cut | past | name's hand | with a piece of broken glass | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with piece=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | sharp stern | a little block of painted wood | stuck property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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