Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 17

But the song soon became weaker and weaker, the bird's head drooped, and he sunk slowly down, and lay dead at their feet.

Who acts: song, head · What happens: become, droop, sink, lay · To what, where: feet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, head), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 became	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 became	advmod
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 became	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weaker	cc
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 weaker	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drooped	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 bird	case
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drooped	nsubj
14	drooped	droop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sunk	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sunk	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sunk	nsubj
18	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 drooped	conj
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	20 down	advmod
20	down	down	ADV	_	18 sunk	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
23	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sunk	advcl
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lay	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the song		soon, weak property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	droop	past	the bird's head			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	past	song		down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	lay	infinitive	song not said here	heads's feet	dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination

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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