Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 31

The poor poet lay on the earth and wept, for the arrow had really flown into his heart.

Who acts: poor poet · What happens: lie, weep, fly · To what, where: earth, arrow, heart

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor poet), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 poet	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poet	amod
3	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wept	cc
9	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flown	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 flown	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 arrow	det
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flown	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flown	aux
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 flown	advmod
16	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wept	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 heart	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heart	nmod:poss
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flown	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lie	past	the poor poet		the earth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on earth=Location
2	weep	past	the poor poet not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past · perfect · passive		the arrow	moon's heart	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into heart=Trajectory

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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