Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 29

I can remember quite well the day on which she was buried, and how Old Preben walked close behind the coffin.

Who acts: I, Old Preben · What happens: remember, bury, walk · To what, where: Martha, coffin

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 (I, Old Preben), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 remember	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obl:unmarked
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 buried	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buried	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 buried	aux:pass
12	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 day	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 walked	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 Old	advmod
16	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Preben	amod
17	Preben	Preben	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	parataxis
19	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 walked	advmod
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 coffin	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coffin	det
22	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	can	I			day	well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	bury	past · passive		Martha		on the day		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
3	walk	past	Old Preben		the coffin		close property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind coffin=Trajectory

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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