Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 104
There it lay stretched on the snow-covered shore, and over it sounded the notes of a song from the ship--a song of Christmas joy, and of the redemption of the soul of man, and of eternal life through Christ's atoning blood.
Who acts: oration, Christmas joy · What happens: lie, stretch, cover, sound, atone, note · To what, where: covered shore, notes, blood, song, soul
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oration, Christmas joy), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snow | punct |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shore | amod |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sounded | cc |
| 13 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 15 sounded | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sounded | nsubj |
| 15 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 notes | det |
| 17 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sounded | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 song | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 song | det |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 notes | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 ship | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ship | det |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 song | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 song | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 song | det |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 notes | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 joy | case |
| 28 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 joy | compound |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 song | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 redemption | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 redemption | cc |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 redemption | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 redemption | det |
| 34 | redemption | redemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 soul | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 soul | det |
| 37 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 redemption | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 soul | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 life | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 life | cc |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 life | case |
| 43 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 life | amod |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 45 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 48 atoning | mark |
| 46 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 atoning | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 Christ | case |
| 48 | atoning | atone | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 life | advcl |
| 49 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 atoning | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | oration | there | of the redemption of the soul of man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stretch | participle | oration not said here | the covered shore | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sound | past | oration | the notes of a song from the ship and a song of Christmas joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme | ||||
| 5 | atone | gerund | oration not said here | blood | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | note | a song from the ship | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | sing | Christmas joy | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | redeem | the soul of man | nom redemption «act transitive»: of=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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