Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 12

The surface of the lake was like a bed of pink rose-leaves.

Who acts: surface · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surface), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 surface	det
2	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 surface	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bed	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
11	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
12	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaves	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bed	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the surface of the lake					like a bed; of pink rose leaves	tree rules

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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