Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 71

On the shores of the lake, under a spreading birch-tree, we laid her in the cold earth.

Who acts: we · What happens: spread, lay · To what, where: arrow, shores

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 (we), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 shores	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shores	det
3	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laid	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shores	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tree	punct
8	under	under	ADP	_	13 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
10	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 tree	amod
11	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 birch	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shores	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shores	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 earth	amod
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	we	arrow		the shores of the lake and a spreading birch tree		in the cold earth	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on shore=Destination

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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