Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 70
"My Bible lies on the table yonder," said the sick woman one day to Sarah. "
Who acts: Bible, sick woman · What happens: lie, say · To what, where: table, Sarah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bible, sick woman), 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 | _ | 4 lies | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Bible | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 8 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 4 lies | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lies | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Sarah | case |
| 18 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | My Bible | the table | yonder property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sick woman | Sarah | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sarah=Recipient |
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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