Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 47
Numerous insects, especially butterflies and bees, lay dead in heaps on the snow.
Who acts: Numerous insects · What happens: lay · To what, where: heaps
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 (Numerous insects), 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 | Numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 insects | amod |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 butterflies | punct |
| 4 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 5 butterflies | advmod |
| 5 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 insects | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bees | cc |
| 7 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 butterflies | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heaps | case |
| 12 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snow | det |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Numerous insects and butterflies and bees | heaps | on the snow; dead property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination |
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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