Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 61

It was, as we have said, carried far away from Marbach and sold as old copper; then sent to Bavaria to be melted down in a furnace.

What happens: say, carry, sell, send, melt down · To what, where: record, Marbach, Bavaria, furnace · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 Marbach	case
13	Marbach	Marbach	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sold	cc
15	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 carried	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 copper	case
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 copper	amod
18	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sold	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sent	advmod
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Bavaria	case
23	Bavaria	Bavaria	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	26 melted	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 melted	aux:pass
26	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sent	advcl
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 melted	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 furnace	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 furnace	det
30	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 melted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	record					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	carry	past			Marbach		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from marbach=Initial_Location
3	sell	participle					as old copper	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	send	past		Bavaria		then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bavaria=Destination
5	melt down	to-infinitive · passive			a furnace			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»

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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