Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 83

It was a perfect bird, with a beak and feathers, and could not have been dead long, and was lying just where the mole had made his passage.

Who acts: passage, neighbor · What happens: be, not be, lie, make, pass · To what, where: perfect bird, mole

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passage, neighbor), 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	5 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beak	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 beak	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beak	det
9	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feathers	cc
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beak	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 long	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 long	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 long	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 long	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 long	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 long	amod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lying	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lying	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lying	aux
23	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 long	advcl
24	just	just	ADV	_	29 made	advmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 made	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mole	det
27	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lying	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 passage	nmod:poss
31	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	passage	a perfect bird		tree rules
2	not is	could · perfect			long property	tree rules
3	lie	past · progressive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the mole		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary passage=Product
5	pass		neighbor			nom passage «act 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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