Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 40
There it lay, scarcely a fathom below the surface, and those two were provided for, buried, and forgotten.
Who acts: beam · What happens: lie, provide, bury, forget · To what, where: fathom, two
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 (beam), 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 | 3 lay | expl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fathom | punct |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 fathom | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fathom | det |
| 7 | fathom | fathom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | below | below | ADP | _ | 10 surface | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 surface | det |
| 10 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fathom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 provided | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 provided | cc |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 two | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 provided | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 provided | aux:pass |
| 16 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 provided | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buried | punct |
| 19 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 provided | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forgotten | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 forgotten | cc |
| 22 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lay | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | beam | a fathom below the surface | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | provide | past · passive | that two | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | forget | participle | beam not said here | 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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