Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 32
I did so to-day, and I saw a long yellow lily lying stretched out on the sofa.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, see, stretch out · To what, where: long yellow lily, sofa · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lily | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lily | amod |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lily | amod |
| 14 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stretched | aux:pass |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stretched | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sofa | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sofa | det |
| 20 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | gerund · passive | a long yellow lily | the sofa | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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