Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 65

Every leaf, every flower, lay as if it were torpid, and the people seemed torpid, too.

Who acts: leaf, sky, people · What happens: lay, be, seem

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (leaf, sky, people), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 leaf	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaf	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 torpid	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 torpid	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 torpid	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 torpid	cop
12	torpid	torpid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lay	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	advcl
18	torpid	torpid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seemed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 too	punct
20	too	too	ADV	_	17 seemed	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	lay	present	every leaf and every flower		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	sky	torpid property	tree rules
3	seem	past	the people	torpid property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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