Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 16
Why was not I lying on a lap and travelling in a coach?
Who acts: I · What happens: not lie, travel · To what, where: lap, coach
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4012): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 lying | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lying | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 lap | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lap | det |
| 8 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 travelling | cc |
| 10 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lying | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 coach | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coach | det |
| 13 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travelling | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie | past · progressive | I | a lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | I not said here | a coach | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coach=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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