Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 62
"In the deep water!" she said to herself; "far down he lies, as if beneath a glacier."
Who acts: head, hand · What happens: say, lie · To what, where: head, deep water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, hand), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 down | punct |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 down | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lies | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 glacier | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 glacier | mark |
| 21 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 23 glacier | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 glacier | det |
| 23 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | head | head | the deep water | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | hand | as a glacier; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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