Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 96

Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses.

Who acts: life, murmuring river, small wooden houses · What happens: lie, cover, flow, dot, be · To what, where: meadows

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 (life, murmuring river, small wooden houses), 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	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 lay	mark
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dotted	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meadows	det
5	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meadows	acl
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 green	mark
9	velvety	velvety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 green	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 covered	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 river	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
14	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 river	compound
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
16	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 river	acl
17	through	through	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flowing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dotted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dotted	cc
21	dotted	dot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 dotted	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 were	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 were	expl
25	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dotted	conj
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 houses	amod
27	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 houses	amod
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 were	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 dotted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	life	the meadows		with the murmuring river	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=Theme
2	cover	participle		the meadows not said here		green property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	flow	gerund	the murmuring river not said here			through meadows = meadow	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location
4	dot	past			here		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	small wooden houses		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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