Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 112

And as he spoke the word he was again in his home; the long white curtains hung down from the windows, and in the middle of the floor stood the black coffin; in it he lay in the sleep of death.

Who acts: voice, long white curtains, death · What happens: speak, be, hang down, stand, lie, sleep · To what, where: word, home, windows, black coffin, middle, coffin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (voice, long white curtains, death), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 spoke	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 home	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 home	cop
9	again	again	ADV	_	12 home	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 home	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hung	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 curtains	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 curtains	amod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 curtains	amod
17	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hung	nsubj
18	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 hung	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 windows	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 windows	det
22	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hung	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hung	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 coffin	det
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 coffin	amod
34	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 lay	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	nsubj
39	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hung	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 sleep	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sleep	det
42	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lay	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 death	case
44	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sleep	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	voice	the word				tree rules
2	is	past	voice	the word not said here	voice's home	again		tree rules
3	hang down	past	the long white curtains		the windows		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	the long white curtains not said here	the black coffin	the middle of the floor			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme in middle=Destination
5	lie	past	voice		coffin		in the sleep of death	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
6	sleep		death					nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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