Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 84

Then every one saw the whitened skull, and they knew the dead man in the bed was a murderer.

Who acts: one, man, dead man · What happens: see, whiten, know, be · To what, where: whitened skull, murderer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, man, dead man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skull	det
6	whitened	whiten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 skull	amod
7	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 murderer	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 murderer	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 murderer	det
20	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knew	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	see	past	every one	the whitened skull	then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skull=Stimulus
2	whiten	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	know	past	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	the dead man in the bed	a murderer		tree rules

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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