The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 15

There reigned over all a most frightful silence; the image of death everywhere shewed itself, and there was nothing to be seen but stretched out bodies of men and animals, all seeming to be dead.

Who acts: image, nothing · What happens: reign, shew, be, see, stretch out, seem · To what, where: frightful silence, image, bodies, death

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (image, nothing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 reigned	expl
2	reigned	reign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	8 silence	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 silence	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 silence	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 frightful	advmod
7	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 silence	amod
8	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reigned	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 shewed	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 image	det
11	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shewed	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 image	nmod
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 shewed	advmod
15	shewed	shew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reigned	parataxis
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 shewed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shewed	conj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 was	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 seen	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 nothing	acl
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 stretched	cc
26	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 seen	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 stretched	compound:prt
28	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stretched	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 men	case
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bodies	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 animals	cc
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 men	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seeming	punct
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 seeming	advmod
35	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 men	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 dead	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 dead	cop
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 seeming	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reign	participle			all frightful silence; there		tree rules
2	shew	past	the image of death	image		everywhere property	tree rules
3	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	stretch out	participle	nothing not said here	bodies of men and animals			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient
6	seem	gerund	nothing not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			dead property	tree rules
8	image			death			nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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