Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 116

But the emperor was not yet dead, although he lay white and stiff on his gorgeous bed, with the long velvet curtains and heavy gold tassels.

Who acts: emperor · What happens: not be, lie · To what, where: gorgeous bed

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 (emperor), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 dead	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dead	advmod
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
9	although	although	SCONJ	_	11 lay	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	conj
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stiff	cc
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 white	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 bed	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bed	nmod:poss
17	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bed	amod
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 curtains	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 curtains	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 curtains	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 curtains	amod
23	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 curtains	compound
24	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tassels	cc
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tassels	amod
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tassels	compound
28	tassels	tassel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 curtains	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the emperor				yet	dead property	tree rules
2	lie	past	emperor			emperor's gorgeous bed		with the long velvet curtains and heavy gold tassels; white property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location

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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