Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 11
Why that must be the grave-stone of Preben Schwane and his wife."
Who acts: that · What happens: be · To what, where: grave stone
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stone | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stone | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stone | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 6 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grave | punct |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Preben | case |
| 10 | Preben | Preben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | nmod |
| 11 | Schwane | Schwane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Preben | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | that | the grave stone and Preben's wife | of Preben | tree rules |
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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