Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 82

And so he lay quite still, while the shot rattled through the rushes, and gun after gun was fired over him.

Who acts: tongue · What happens: lie, rattle, fire · To what, where: shot, rushes, gun

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 still	advmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shot	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 shot	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shot	det
10	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
11	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shot	acl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 rushes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rushes	det
14	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rattled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fired	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fired	cc
17	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fired	nsubj:pass
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 gun	case
19	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gun	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fired	aux:pass
21	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	advcl
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fired	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	tongue	the shot		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rattle	participle		the shot not said here	the rushes			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rush=Location
3	fire	past · passive		gun after gun			over tongue	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over he=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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