Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 64
The rich and mighty lord of the castle lay on his couch, in the midst of the great hall, with its many colored walls looking like the centre of a great tulip; but he was stiff and powerless in all his limbs, and lay stretched out like a mummy.
Who acts: rich lord, many colored walls, lord · What happens: lie, look, be, stretch out · To what, where: couch, limbs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich lord, many colored walls, lord), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lord | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lord | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mighty | cc |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rich | conj |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lord | nmod |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 couch | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 couch | nmod:poss |
| 12 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 midst | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 midst | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 midst | det |
| 16 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hall | amod |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 midst | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 walls | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 walls | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 walls | nmod:poss |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 walls | amod |
| 25 | colored | colored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 walls | amod |
| 26 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hall | conj |
| 27 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 walls | acl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 centre | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 centre | det |
| 30 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looking | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tulip | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 tulip | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tulip | amod |
| 34 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 centre | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 stiff | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 stiff | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stiff | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 stiff | cop |
| 39 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lay | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 powerless | cc |
| 41 | powerless | powerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 stiff | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 limbs | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 limbs | det:predet |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 45 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 stiff | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 stretched | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 stretched | cc |
| 48 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 stretched | aux:pass |
| 49 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lay | conj |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 49 stretched | compound:prt |
| 51 | like | like | ADP | _ | 53 mummy | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 mummy | det |
| 53 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 stretched | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the rich lord of the castle | lord's couch | in the midst of the great hall and castle's many colored walls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | castle's many colored walls not said here | like the centre of a great tulip | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | lord | lord's limbs | stiff property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | lord not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stretch out | infinitive · passive | the rich lord of the castle not said here | like a mummy | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» |
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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