Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 12

Then he awoke, and all the beautiful things vanished before his eyes, his father lay dead on the bed, and he was all alone.

Who acts: father · What happens: awake, vanish, lay, be · To what, where: beautiful things, bed

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, 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 (father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 things	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 things	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 awoke	obl
10	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 things	acl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vanished	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	advcl
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lay	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 alone	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 alone	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 alone	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 alone	cop
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 alone	advmod
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	father	all beautiful things		then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish	participle		all beautiful things not said here		before father's eyes		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	present	father's father		the bed		dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination
4	is	past	father				all, alone property	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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