Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 1

"I've been in Upsala," said the Moon: "I looked down upon the great plain covered with coarse grass, and upon the barren fields.

Who acts: Upsala · What happens: be, say, look down, cover · To what, where: Upsala, great plain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Upsala), 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	_	6 Upsala	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Upsala	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Upsala	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Upsala	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Upsala	case
6	Upsala	Upsala	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Upsala	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Upsala	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 looked	advmod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 plain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plain	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plain	amod
20	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 plain	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 grass	case
23	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grass	amod
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fields	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fields	cc
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 fields	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fields	det
29	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fields	amod
30	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 looked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect	Upsala		Upsala		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Upsala				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look down in a quote	past	Upsala			upon the great plain; upon the barren fields; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon plain=Theme
4	cover in a quote	participle		the great plain not said here		with coarse grass	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with grass=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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