Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 211

There he lay stretched on his bed, dead, with his old nightcap tightly clasped in his two hands.

Who acts: tree, old nightcap · What happens: lie, stretch, clasp · To what, where: bed, two hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, old nightcap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7976): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lay	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clasped	punct
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 clasped	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nightcap	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nightcap	amod
14	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clasped	nsubj
15	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	16 clasped	advmod
16	clasped	clasp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lay	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hands	nummod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clasped	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	tree	there	dead property	tree rules
2	stretch	participle	tree not said here	tree's bed		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	clasp	participle	tree's old nightcap	tree's two hands	tightly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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