Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 13
"Yes," he continued, "these people were among the last who were buried in the churchyard of the old convent.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: continue, be, bury · To what, where: churchyard
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 (man, people), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 continued | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 last | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | cop |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 last | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 continued | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 buried | aux:pass |
| 17 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 last | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 churchyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 churchyard | det |
| 20 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buried | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 convent | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 convent | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 convent | amod |
| 24 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 churchyard | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | this people | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bury in a quote | past · passive | the churchyard of the old convent | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in churchyard=Destination |
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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