Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 112

There lies the dead man, in the black cloak wrought with silver; the crozier in the powerless hand that was once so mighty.

Who acts: dead man, powerless hand · What happens: lie, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead man, powerless hand), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lies	expl
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cloak	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 cloak	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cloak	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cloak	amod
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	parataxis
11	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cloak	amod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 silver	case
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrought	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 crozier	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crozier	det
16	crozier	crozier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 hand	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
19	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crozier	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 mighty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 mighty	cop
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 mighty	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 mighty	advmod
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	the dead man			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the powerless hand					mighty, once property	tree rules

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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