Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 133
There they all lay, but quite faded; much more so than the day before.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: lay, fade
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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 | 4 lay | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 lay | advmod |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faded | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 faded | cc |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 faded | advmod |
| 8 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 lay | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 day | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | flowers = flower | there | day | before property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | fade | past | flowers = flower not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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