Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 4

Nobody shed a tear over him; his face was covered over with a white cloth, under his head they had placed a large thick book, the leaves of which consisted of folded sheets of blotting-paper, and withered flowers lay between them; it was the herbarium which he had gathered in various places and was to be buried with him, according to his own wish.

Who acts: Nobody, leaves, flowers, face, man · What happens: shed, cover over, place, consist, fold, wither · To what, where: tear, face, people, head, herbarium, various places

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, leaves, flowers, face), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 shed	nsubj
2	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tear	det
4	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shed	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 covered	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	aux:pass
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shed	parataxis
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 covered	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 cloth	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cloth	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cloth	amod
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 placed	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	aux
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 covered	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 book	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 book	amod
26	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 book	amod
27	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaves	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 leaves	det
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 consisted	nsubj
33	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 leaves	acl:relcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sheets	case
35	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 sheets	amod
36	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 consisted	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 paper	case
38	blotting	blotting	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 paper	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 blotting	punct
40	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sheets	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 withered	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 withered	cc
43	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 consisted	conj
44	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 lay	nsubj
45	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 withered	ccomp
46	between	between	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 lay	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 herbarium	punct
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 herbarium	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 herbarium	cop
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 herbarium	det
52	herbarium	herbarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shed	parataxis
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 gathered	nsubj:pass
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 gathered	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 gathered	aux
56	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 herbarium	acl:relcl
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 places	case
58	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 places	amod
59	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 gathered	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 buried	cc
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 buried	aux:pass
62	to	to	PART	_	64 buried	mark
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 buried	aux:pass
64	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 gathered	conj
65	with	with	ADP	_	66 him	case
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 buried	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 wish	punct
68	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	72 wish	case
69	to	to	ADP	_	68 according	fixed
70	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 wish	nmod:poss
71	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 wish	amod
72	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 buried	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shed	past	Nobody	a tear		over man; the leaves obl	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
2	cover over	past · passive		man's face		with a white cloth; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cloth=Theme
3	place	past · perfect · passive		people	man's head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme book=Destination
4	consist	past	the leaves			of folded sheets of blotting paper	tree rules
5	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	wither	past	the leaves not said here				tree rules
7	lie	past	flowers			between people	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location
8	is a	past	face	the herbarium			tree rules
9	gather	past · perfect · passive		the herbarium	various places		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
10	bury	past · passive				with man; accord man's own wish	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»
11	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
12	wish		man				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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