Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 21

The moss closed itself round him, and there he lay, a captive indeed, but not unnoticed by God.

Who acts: moss, boy · What happens: close, lie, not unnotic · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moss, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moss	det
2	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closed	nsubj
3	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 closed	obj
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 closed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 lay	expl
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	3 closed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 captive	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 captive	det
14	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	xcomp
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 captive	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unnoticed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 unnoticed	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 unnoticed	advmod
19	unnoticed	unnotic	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lay	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 God	case
21	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 unnoticed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	close	past	the moss	last		round boy	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	lie	past	boy		there	captive property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not unnotic	participle	boy not said here			by God	tree rules

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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