Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 49

Here and there, amidst the trees of the silent valley, stood poles which supported the wires of the electric telegraph.

Who acts: poles · What happens: stand, support · To what, where: poles, wires

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poles), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stood	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
5	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 valley	det
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 valley	amod
11	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trees	punct
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 supported	nsubj
16	supported	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poles	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wires	det
18	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 supported	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 telegraph	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 telegraph	det
21	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 telegraph	amod
22	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wires	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		poles		here		amidst the trees of the silent valley	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pole=Stimulus
2	support	past	poles	the wires of the electric telegraph					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wire=Stimulus

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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