Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 25

The mother and son were walking in the churchyard when they discovered the old bell, and they stood still to look at it.

Who acts: mother, bells · What happens: walk, discover, stand, look · To what, where: churchyard, old 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 (mother, bells), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 son	cc
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walking	aux
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 discovered	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 churchyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 churchyard	det
9	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 discovered	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 discovered	nsubj
12	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bell	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bell	amod
15	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 discovered	conj
20	still	still	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stood	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 look	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the mother and son		the churchyard			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Trajectory
2	discover	past	bells = bell	the old bell				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Topic
3	stand	past	bells = bell			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive	bells = bell not said here				at churchyard	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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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