Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 196
All stood with enraptured faces round Thorwaldsen's grave, and a few picked up the fallen rose-leaves and preserved them.
What happens: stand, enrapture, pick up, fall, preserve · To what, where: few, leaves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 stood | advmod |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 faces | case |
| 4 | enraptured | enrapture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 faces | amod |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 grave | case |
| 7 | Thorwaldsen | Thorwaldsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Thorwaldsen | case |
| 9 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 picked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 picked | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 few | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leaves | det |
| 17 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 leaves | amod |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaves | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 picked | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 preserved | cc |
| 22 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 preserved | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | with enraptured faces; round Thorwaldsen's grave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enrapture | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | pick up | participle · passive | a few | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | preserve | past | leaves = leaf | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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