Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 18

Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body.

Who acts: Heaven, I · What happens: know, be, lie · To what, where: bed, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, I), 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	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 knows	advmod
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 bed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bed	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lying	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 lying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 knows	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 lying	obl
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 something	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 black	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 black	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 black	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 black	cop
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lying	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blue	cc
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 black	conj
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 body	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 body	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 body	nmod:poss
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	Heaven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past		the bed		tree rules
3	lie	past · progressive	I	something	over my body	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on something=Location
4	is	present	I		black property	tree rules
5	be		I not said here			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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