Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 26
In the centre of one of the rooms stood an open coffin, in which lay the body of a woman, still in the bloom of youth and very beautiful.
Who acts: youth · What happens: stand, lie, bloom · To what, where: open coffin, centre, body, bloom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 centre | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rooms | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rooms | det |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coffin | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coffin | amod |
| 12 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 woman | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bloom | punct |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 bloom | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bloom | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bloom | det |
| 26 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 youth | case |
| 28 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bloom | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 beautiful | cc |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lay | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a open coffin | the centre of one of the rooms | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme in centre=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the body of a woman | the bloom of youth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bloom | youth | nom bloom «process intransitive»: of=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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