Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 11

"She was lying in bed in a house in that narrow street: she was sick unto death, and the cruel landlord came up, and tore away the thin coverlet, her only protection against the cold. '

Who acts: daughter, cruel landlord · What happens: lie, be, come up, protect · To what, where: bed, tore

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, cruel landlord), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 street	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 street	det
12	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 street	amod
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 sick	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sick	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sick	cop
17	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lying	parataxis
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	19 death	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sick	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 landlord	det
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 landlord	amod
24	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sick	conj
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tore	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tore	cc
29	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 tore	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 coverlet	det
32	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 coverlet	amod
33	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 away	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 protection	punct
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 protection	nmod:poss
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 protection	advmod
37	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sick	conj
38	against	against	ADP	_	40 cold	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cold	det
40	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 protection	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	past · progressive	daughter		bed	in a house; in that narrow street	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	is in a quote	past	daughter			unto death; sick property	tree rules
3	come up in a quote	past	the cruel landlord	tore			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	protect in a quote		daughter			against the cold	nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl

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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