Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 194

The earth has been heaped on the coffin, and it is earth only that lies within it.

Who acts: earth · What happens: heap, be, lie · To what, where: earth, coffin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heaped	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heaped	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 heaped	aux:pass
5	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 coffin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heaped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 earth	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 earth	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 earth	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 earth	cop
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coffin	appos
14	only	only	ADV	_	13 earth	advmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lies	nsubj
16	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 earth	acl:relcl
17	within	within	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lies	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heap	present · perfect · passive		the earth	the coffin		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on coffin=Destination
2	is a	present	earth	earth			tree rules
3	lie	present	earth			within earth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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