Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 23

But in the churchyard there were several new graves; and there also, in the grass, close by the wall, stood the old church bell!

Who acts: several new graves · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: churchyard, old church bell

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several new graves), 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	_	6 were	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 churchyard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 churchyard	det
4	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stood	advcl
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 graves	amod
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 graves	amod
9	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 there	cc
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 were	parataxis
13	also	also	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grass	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 close	punct
19	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grass	amod
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bell	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bell	amod
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bell	compound
28	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	several new graves			the churchyard; there		in the grass	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location
2	stand	past		the old church bell					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus

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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