Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 27

A torn flag upon the ground, the tricolor was waving above the bayonets, and on the throne lay the poor lad with the pale glorified countenance, his eyes turned towards the sky, his limbs writhing in the death agony, his breast bare, and his poor tattered clothing half hidden by the rich velvet embroidered with silver lilies.

Who acts: torn flag, eyes, limbs, poor · What happens: tear, wave, lie, glorify, turn, writhe · To what, where: bayonets, poor lad, throne, sky, death agony, half

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 (torn flag, eyes, limbs, poor), 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 flag	det
2	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flag	amod
3	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waving	nsubj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flag	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flag	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tricolor	det
9	tricolor	tricolor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waving	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waving	aux
11	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 bayonets	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bayonets	det
14	bayonets	bayonet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 waving	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 throne	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 throne	det
19	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waving	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lad	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lad	amod
23	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 countenance	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 countenance	det
26	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 countenance	amod
27	glorified	glorify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 countenance	amod
28	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 turned	nsubj
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 countenance	conj
33	towards	towards	ADP	_	35 sky	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sky	det
35	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 limbs	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 limbs	nmod:poss
38	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 countenance	conj
39	writhing	writhe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 limbs	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 agony	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 agony	det
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 agony	compound
43	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 writhing	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 breast	punct
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 breast	nmod:poss
46	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 countenance	conj
47	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 breast	amod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 tattered	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 tattered	cc
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 poor	nmod:poss
51	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tattered	nsubj
52	tattered	tatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	conj
53	clothing	clothe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 tattered	xcomp
54	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	53 clothing	obj
55	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 half	acl
56	by	by	ADP	_	59 velvet	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 velvet	det
58	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 velvet	amod
59	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hidden	obl
60	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 velvet	acl
61	with	with	ADP	_	63 lilies	case
62	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 lilies	compound
63	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 embroidered	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 waving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tear	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wave	past · progressive	a torn flag upon the ground		the bayonets		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above bayonet=Location
3	lie	past		the poor lad	the throne	with the pale glorified countenance and tricolor's limbs and tricolor's breast	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lad=Theme
4	glorify	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	tricolor's eyes		the sky		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards sky=Trajectory
6	writhe	gerund	tricolor's limbs not said here		the death agony		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Location
7	tatter	past	tricolor's poor				tree rules
8	clothe	gerund	tricolor's poor not said here	half			vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
9	hide	participle		half not said here		by the rich velvet	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by velvet=Location
10	embroider	participle		the rich velvet not said here		with silver lilies	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lily=Theme

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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