Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 26

And yet there she was, lying in the next room, dead--an old woman, and he was an old man, speaking of the days of hope, long passed away.

Who acts: corpse, man · What happens: lie, be, speak, pass away · To what, where: next room, old man, hope · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 lying	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lying	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lying	punct
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dead	punct
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 man	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 speaking	punct
26	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lying	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 days	det
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 speaking	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 hope	case
31	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 days	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 passed	punct
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 passed	advmod
34	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 hope	acl
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 passed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	corpse		the next room; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	is a	past	man	a old man				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	gerund	corpse not said here			day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass away	participle		hope not said here			away, long property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP 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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