Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 86

In the middle of the floor lay a dead swallow, his beautiful wings pulled close to his sides, his feet and his head drawn up under his feathers; the poor bird had evidently died of the cold.

Who acts: head, poor bird · What happens: lie, pull, draw up, die · To what, where: dead swallow, middle, beautiful wings, feathers

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 (head, poor bird), 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 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 swallow	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swallow	amod
10	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wings	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wings	amod
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swallow	appos
15	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wings	acl
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 pulled	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sides	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sides	nmod:poss
19	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feet	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 feet	nmod:poss
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swallow	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drawn	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drawn	nsubj
26	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lay	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 drawn	compound:prt
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 feathers	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feathers	nmod:poss
30	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drawn	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 died	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bird	det
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bird	amod
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 died	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 died	aux
36	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	37 died	advmod
37	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lay	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 cold	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cold	det
40	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 died	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a dead swallow and neighbor's feet	the middle of the floor		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swallow=Theme
2	pull	participle		neighbor's beautiful wings not said here		close property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw up	participle	neighbor's head		neighbor's feathers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die	past · perfect	the poor bird			of the cold; evidently property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer

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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