Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 182

It was the mother of the child who lay there on a miserable bed.

Who acts: light, child · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: mother, miserable bed

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mother	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 child	acl:relcl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lay	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 bed	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bed	det
13	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bed	amod
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	light	the mother				of the child	tree rules
2	lie	past	the child			a miserable bed; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location

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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