Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 43
It was linen which had been laid to bleach on the grass.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, lay, bleach · To what, where: linen, grass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 linen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 linen | cop |
| 3 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 laid | aux:pass |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 linen | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bleach | mark |
| 9 | bleach | bleach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laid | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bleach | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 linen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | way | linen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · perfect · passive | linen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bleach | to-infinitive | the grass | 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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