Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 113

Cold and pale lay the emperor in his royal bed; the whole court thought he was dead, and every one ran away to pay homage to his successor.

Who acts: Cold, whole court, emperor, one · What happens: lay, think, be, run away, pay · To what, where: emperor, royal bed, homage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cold, whole court, emperor, one), 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	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pale	cc
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 emperor	det
6	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 court	amod
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 ran	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pay	mark
26	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ran	xcomp
27	homage	homage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pay	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 successor	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 successor	nmod:poss
30	successor	successor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pay	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Cold	the emperor	emperor's royal bed		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme in bed=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	the whole court				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	emperor			dead property	tree rules
4	run away	past	every one			away property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	pay	to-infinitive	every one not said here	homage		to emperor's successor	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Asset

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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