Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 8

Here, under the walnut-trees, by the deep blue lake, sat Byron, and wrote his melodious verses about the prisoner confined in the gloomy castle of Chillon.

Who acts: Byron · What happens: sit, write, confine, verse · To what, where: Byron, walnut trees, melodious verses, prisoner, gloomy castle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Byron), 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	15 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	under	under	ADP	_	7 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
5	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 walnut	punct
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lake	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trees	punct
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Byron	Byron	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wrote	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wrote	cc
19	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 verses	nmod:poss
21	melodious	melodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 verses	amod
22	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wrote	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 prisoner	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 prisoner	det
25	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wrote	obl
26	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 prisoner	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 castle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 castle	det
29	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 castle	amod
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 confined	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Chillon	case
32	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 castle	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		Byron	the walnut trees and the deep blue lake; here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent byron=Theme under tree=Location
2	write	past		Byron's melodious verses		about the prisoner	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verse=Recipient about prisoner=Topic
3	confine	participle		the prisoner not said here	the gloomy castle of Chillon		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in castle=Destination
4	verse		Byron				nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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