Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 106

But in truth, Isolda had not forgotten him, her faithful friend; and when both were laid in their graves, one, on each side of the church, the linden-trees that grew by each grave spread over the roof, and, bending towards each other, mingled their blossoms together.

Who acts: Isolda, linden trees · What happens: not forget, lay, grow, spread, bend, mingle · To what, where: Anthony, truth, both, graves, grave, roof

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isolda, linden trees), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 forgotten	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 truth	case
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgotten	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 truth	punct
5	Isolda	Isolda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 forgotten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forgotten	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 forgotten	advmod
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgotten	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friend	amod
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgotten	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laid	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 laid	mark
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 laid	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laid	aux:pass
19	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 forgotten	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 graves	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 graves	nmod:poss
22	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 graves	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 side	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 church	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 church	det
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 trees	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 trees	det
34	linden	linden	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 trees	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 linden	punct
36	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 church	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 grew	nsubj
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 trees	acl:relcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 grave	case
40	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 grave	det
41	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	obl
42	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 grave	acl
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 roof	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 roof	det
45	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spread	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 bending	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 bending	cc
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 bending	punct
49	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 grew	advcl
50	towards	towards	ADP	_	51 each	case
51	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	49 bending	obl
52	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 each	fixed
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 mingled	punct
54	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grew	conj
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 blossoms	nmod:poss
56	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 mingled	obj
57	together	together	ADV	_	54 mingled	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not forget	past · perfect	Isolda	Anthony	truth		tree rules
2	lay	past · passive		both	Tristan's graves	on each side of the church and the linden trees	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination
3	grow	past	the linden trees			by each grave	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by grave=Location
4	spread	participle		each grave not said here	the roof		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Location
5	bend	gerund	the linden trees not said here		each		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Location
6	mingle	past	the linden trees not said here	Tristan's blossoms		together property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=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: «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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