Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 46

There was one, but it lay in the coffin of the dead; no one knew anything about it.

Who acts: one, leaf · What happens: be, lie, know · To what, where: coffin, anything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, leaf), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 was	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 lay	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 coffin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coffin	det
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dead	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dead	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coffin	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 knew	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 anything	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	leaf		the coffin of the dead		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location
3	know	past	no one	anything		about leaf	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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