Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 92

"There lies in the pond a little dead baby who has dreamed itself to death," said the mother. "

Who acts: little dead baby, mother · What happens: lie, dream, say · To what, where: pond, song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dead baby, mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lies	expl
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 baby	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 baby	amod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 baby	amod
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pond	appos
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dreamed	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dreamed	aux
13	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 baby	acl:relcl
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 dreamed	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dreamed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present			the pond; there		tree rules
2	dream in a quote	present · perfect	a little dead baby	song		to death	vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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