Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 57

Long white curtains shaded the windows of his room, and in the middle of the floor stood a black coffin, in which he now lay in the still sleep of death; his wish was fulfilled, his body was at rest, and his spirit travelling.

Who acts: Long white curtains, air, body, spirit, death · What happens: shade, stand, lie, fulfil, be, travel · To what, where: windows, black coffin, sleep, wish, rest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Long white curtains, air, body, spirit), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curtains	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curtains	amod
3	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stood	nsubj
4	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 curtains	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 windows	det
6	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shaded	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 windows	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 middle	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 middle	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curtains	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coffin	det
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 coffin	amod
21	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lay	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 lay	advmod
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sleep	det
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 sleep	advmod
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 fulfilled	punct
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wish	nmod:poss
36	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fulfilled	aux:pass
38	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 stood	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rest	punct
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 body	nmod:poss
41	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rest	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 rest	cop
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 rest	case
44	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fulfilled	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 travelling	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 travelling	cc
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 spirit	nmod:poss
48	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 travelling	nsubj
49	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stood	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	shade	participle	Long white curtains and the middle of the floor not said here	the windows of air's room			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Beneficiary
2	stand	past	Long white curtains and the middle of the floor	a black coffin			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coffin=Stimulus
3	lie	past	air		the sleep of death	now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
4	fulfil	past · passive		air's wish			tree rules
5	is	past	air's body		rest		tree rules
6	travel	gerund	air's spirit				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sleep		death				nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=agent
8	wish		air				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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