Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 23

In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelled into the earth, and nettles will soon be growing rankly over his grave, and the sexton will throw thorns and weeds from the other graves upon it."

Who acts: nettles, sexton · What happens: shovell, grow, throw · To what, where: corpse, corner, grave, thorns, other graves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nettles, sexton), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 corner	det
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shovelled	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 churchyard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 churchyard	det
6	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corpse	det
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shovelled	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 suicide	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 suicide	det
11	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corpse	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shovelled	aux:pass
13	shovelled	shovell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shovelled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 growing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 growing	cc
19	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 growing	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 growing	aux
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 growing	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 growing	aux
23	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shovelled	conj
24	rankly	rankly	ADV	_	23 growing	advmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 grave	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grave	nmod:poss
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 growing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 throw	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sexton	det
31	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 throw	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 throw	aux
33	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 shovelled	parataxis
34	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 throw	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 weeds	cc
36	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thorns	conj
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 graves	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 graves	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 graves	amod
40	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 throw	obl
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 throw	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shovell	past · passive		the corpse of the suicide	a corner of the churchyard	into the earth	tree rules
2	grow	future · progressive	nettles		driver's grave	rankly, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Location
3	throw	future	the sexton	thorns and weeds	the other graves	upon corpse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme from grave=Initial_Location

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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