Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 18
In the neighborhood of the moorlands, and not far from the great arm of the North Sea and the Cattegat which is called the Lumfjorden, lay the castle of the Viking, with its water-tight stone cellars, its tower, and its three projecting storeys.
What happens: call, lie · To what, where: great arm, castle, neighborhood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 neighborhood | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighborhood | det |
| 3 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 moorlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moorlands | det |
| 6 | moorlands | moorland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 neighborhood | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arm | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arm | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 arm | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 arm | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 arm | amod |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 neighborhood | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sea | det |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sea | compound |
| 18 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 arm | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Cattegat | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Cattegat | det |
| 21 | Cattegat | Cattegat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sea | conj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 arm | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Lumfjorden | det |
| 26 | Lumfjorden | Lumfjorden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 neighborhood | punct |
| 28 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 castle | det |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Viking | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Viking | det |
| 33 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 castle | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cellars | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 cellars | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 cellars | nmod:poss |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tight | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 water | punct |
| 39 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 cellars | amod |
| 40 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cellars | compound |
| 41 | cellars | cellar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lay | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 tower | punct |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 tower | nmod:poss |
| 44 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cellars | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 storeys | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 storeys | cc |
| 47 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 storeys | nmod:poss |
| 48 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 storeys | nummod |
| 49 | projecting | projecting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 storeys | compound |
| 50 | storeys | storey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lay | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the great arm of the North Sea and the Cattegat | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | the castle of the Viking | the neighborhood of the moorlands and the great arm of the North Sea and the Cattegat | with Viking's tight stone cellars and Viking's tower; tower's three projecting storeys obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location castle=Theme |
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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