Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 24

They laid the bleeding youth upon the throne of France, wrapped the velvet around his wounds, and his blood streamed forth upon the imperial purple.

Who acts: thrusts, blood, velvet · What happens: lay, wrap, stream, wound · To what, where: bleeding youth, throne, velvet, wounds, imperial purple

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thrusts, blood, velvet), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
4	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 youth	compound
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 throne	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 throne	det
8	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 France	case
10	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 throne	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wrapped	punct
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 velvet	det
14	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrapped	obj
15	around	around	ADP	_	17 wounds	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wounds	nmod:poss
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrapped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 streamed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 streamed	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 blood	nmod:poss
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 streamed	nsubj
22	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 laid	conj
23	forth	forth	ADV	_	22 streamed	advmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 purple	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 purple	det
26	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 purple	amod
27	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 streamed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	thrusts = thrust	the bleeding youth	the throne of France		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme upon throne=Destination
2	wrap	past	thrusts = thrust not said here	the velvet	velvet's wounds		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent velvet=Theme around wound=Destination
3	stream	participle	velvet's blood		the imperial purple	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon purple=Location
4	wound		velvet				nom wound «state transitive»: 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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