Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 22

The corpse lay in a bedroom, near to the one in which we sat, and the old man was in great distress and weeping like a child.

Who acts: corpse, we, old man · What happens: lie, sit, be, weep · To what, where: one, bedroom, great distress

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse, we, old man), 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:pg27200:8079): 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corpse	det
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bedroom	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bedroom	det
6	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	near	near	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sat	obl
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 distress	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 distress	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 distress	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 distress	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 distress	case
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distress	amod
24	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 weeping	cc
26	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 distress	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 child	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weeping	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the corpse	the one	a bedroom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bedroom=Location
2	sit	past	we			in the one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	is	past	the old man		great distress		tree rules
4	weep	gerund	the old man not said here			like a child	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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