Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 8

A large doll, still handsome, though rather old, for her neck had been mended, lay inside one of the drawers which was partly open.

Who acts: drawers · What happens: mend, lay, be · To what, where: neck

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doll	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doll	amod
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 handsome	punct
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 handsome	advmod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doll	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handsome	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mended	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 mended	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mended	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mended	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 mended	aux:pass
17	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 old	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
19	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mended	conj
20	inside	inside	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 lay	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 drawers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drawers	det
24	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 open	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 open	cop
27	partly	partly	ADV	_	28 open	advmod
28	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 drawers	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mend	past · perfect · passive		number's neck		tree rules
2	lay	present			inside one of the drawers	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inside one=Destination
3	is	past	the drawers		open, partly property	tree rules

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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