Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 6

By the open sea was a giant's grave; and on the grave-mound sat at midnight the spirit of the buried hero, who had been a king.

Who acts: grave, buried hero · What happens: be, sit, bury · To what, where: grave, spirit, grave mound, king

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave, buried hero), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sea	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grave	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grave	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 mound	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mound	det
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mound	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grave	punct
16	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grave	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 midnight	case
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spirit	det
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 hero	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hero	det
24	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hero	amod
25	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spirit	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 king	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 king	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 king	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 king	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hero	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a giant's grave			by the open sea	tree rules
2	sit	past	a giant's grave not said here	the spirit of the buried hero	the grave mound	midnight		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme on mound=Location
3	bury	participle						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past · perfect	the buried hero	a king				tree rules

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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