Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 45
I lay at their feet; but they had no eyes or thoughts for me.
Who acts: I, whispering · What happens: lay, have · To what, where: feet, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, whispering), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 thoughts | cc |
| 13 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | I | whispering's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | past | whispering | no eyes or thoughts | for me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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