Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 13

"I looked in, over the lamp, into the little maiden's bed, where she lay under the neat white coverlet, her hands folded demurely and her little face quite grave and serious.

Who acts: little sister, sister, hands · What happens: look in, lie, fold · To what, where: neat white coverlet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sister, sister, hands), 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	_	3 looked	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lamp	punct
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 lamp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bed	punct
10	into	into	ADP	_	15 bed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maiden	amod
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 maiden	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 lay	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
20	under	under	ADP	_	24 coverlet	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coverlet	det
22	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coverlet	amod
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coverlet	amod
24	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 folded	punct
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 folded	nsubj
28	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	advcl
29	demurely	demurely	ADV	_	28 folded	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 serious	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 face	nmod:poss
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 face	amod
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 serious	nsubj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 grave	advmod
35	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 face	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 serious	cc
37	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 folded	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look in in a quote	past	little sister = sister		into the little maiden's bed	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bed=Theme
2	lie in a quote	past	sister	the neat white coverlet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under coverlet=Location
3	fold in a quote	past	sister's hands		demurely property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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