Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 131
The following morning, however, a letter lay ready to be sent to Christina, and the following is what he wrote:--
Who acts: letter · What happens: follow, lie, send, be, write · To what, where: Christina
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sent | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | aux:pass |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Christina | case |
| 15 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 what | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 what | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 following | det |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 what | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | cop |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 lay | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wrote | nsubj |
| 23 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lie | past | a letter | morning | however, ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive · passive | a letter not said here | Christina | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to christina=Destination | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | write | past | letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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