Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 113

The three high-born daughters were lying in bed because of the cold, and their father crouching beneath his leather coverlet.

Who acts: three born daughters, father · What happens: bear, lie, crouch · To what, where: bed, leather coverlet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three born daughters, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daughters	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	nummod
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 born	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 high	punct
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 daughters	amod
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lying	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lying	aux
8	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 cold	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cold	det
14	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crouching	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crouching	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crouching	nsubj
19	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lying	conj
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 coverlet	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 coverlet	nmod:poss
22	leather	leather	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 coverlet	amod
23	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crouching	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	lie	past · progressive	the three born daughters	bed	because the cold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
3	crouch	gerund	daughters's father	father's leather coverlet		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath coverlet=Location

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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