Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 105

They laid her upon the humble bed; there was not a yard of linen on it, only a woollen coverlet to keep the occupant warm.

Who acts: sailors · What happens: lay, not be, keep · To what, where: stranger, linen, yard, occupant

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bed	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 yard	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 yard	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 yard	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 yard	det
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 linen	case
15	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yard	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 coverlet	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 coverlet	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 coverlet	det
21	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 coverlet	amod
22	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 coverlet	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 occupant	det
26	occupant	occupant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obj
27	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keep	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	sailors = sailor	stranger	linen	upon the humble bed	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon bed=Destination
2	not is a	past		a yard		of linen	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	sailors = sailor not said here	the occupant		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occupant=Theme

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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