Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 3

But they were not talking of the moon, but of a large, old stone that lay below in the courtyard not very far from the kitchen door.

Who acts: curtains, large old stone · What happens: not talk, lie · To what, where: courtyard

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 (curtains, large old stone), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 talking	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talking	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talking	advmod
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stone	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 stone	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 stone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stone	acl:relcl
19	below	below	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 courtyard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 courtyard	det
22	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 far	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 lay	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
28	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	compound
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 far	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	past · progressive	curtains = curtain					of the moon	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	a large old stone			the courtyard		below, far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location

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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