Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 11
Close by, lay a few salad-leaves and two chestnuts, which were to serve for his supper.
Who acts: few salad leaves · What happens: lay, serve · To what, where: few salad leaves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few salad leaves), 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 lay | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 7 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 salad | punct |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chestnuts | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 chestnuts | nummod |
| 12 | chestnuts | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leaves | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 serve | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 serve | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 serve | mark |
| 17 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leaves | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 supper | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 supper | nmod:poss |
| 20 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 serve | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a few salad leaves and two chestnuts | close property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Result | ||||
| 2 | serve | past | a few salad leaves and two chestnuts | for boy's supper | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for supper=Recipient |
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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