Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 121

"The storks are come," was said in the great house on the banks of the Nile, where the lord lay in the hall on his downy cushions, covered with a leopard skin, scarcely alive, yet not dead, waiting and hoping for the lotus-flower from the deep moorland in the far north.

Who acts: lord · What happens: come, say, lie, cover, wait, hope · To what, where: storks, great house, hall, downy cushions, deep moorland · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storks	det
3	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux:pass
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 banks	det
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 house	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Nile	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Nile	det
19	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 banks	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 lay	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lord	det
23	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 banks	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hall	det
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 cushions	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cushions	nmod:poss
30	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cushions	amod
31	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 covered	punct
33	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 cushions	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 skin	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 skin	det
36	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 skin	compound
37	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 alive	punct
39	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	40 alive	advmod
40	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 skin	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dead	punct
42	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	44 dead	cc
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 dead	advmod
44	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 waiting	punct
46	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 dead	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hoping	cc
48	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 waiting	conj
49	for	for	ADP	_	53 flower	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 flower	det
51	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 flower	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 lotus	punct
53	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hoping	obl
54	from	from	ADP	_	57 moorland	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 moorland	det
56	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 moorland	amod
57	moorland	moorland	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hoping	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	61 north	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 north	det
60	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 north	amod
61	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 moorland	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · passive		the storks			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · passive			the great house on the banks of the Nile		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic
3	lie	past	the lord		the hall	on lord's downy cushions	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
4	cover	participle		lord's downy cushions not said here		with a leopard skin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with skin=Theme
5	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hope	gerund			the deep moorland in the far north	for the lotus flower	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for flower=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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