Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 11

He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he lay and thought about his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all that his master had told him.

Who acts: thought, that · What happens: be, lie, think, tell · To what, where: old turn bedstead, bedstead, that, thought · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 bedstead	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 bedstead	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bedstead	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bedstead	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bedstead	amod
13	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bedstead	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	compound
16	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	27 lesson	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lesson	nmod:poss
26	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lesson	compound
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Zealand	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Zealand	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Zealand	case
31	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 told	cc
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 told	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 told	nsubj:pass
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 master	nmod:poss
38	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 told	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 told	aux
40	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lay	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 told	iobj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	thought				now	to bed; go property	tree rules
2	is a	past	that	a old turn bedstead					tree rules
3	lie	past	thought			bedstead		of Zealand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
4	think speech: other	past	thought not said here					about thought's geography lesson	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about lesson=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		that	thought			of all	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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