Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 93
There was quiet among the dead and the living in the deep sea.
What happens: be · To what, where: dead
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: 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | xcomp |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 dead | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dead | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 living | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 living | det |
| 9 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sea | amod |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the dead; there | quiet property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among dead=Location |
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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