Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 30

"A few years before this time the old couple had had their grave-stone prepared, with an inscription and their names, but not the date.

Who acts: few years, things · What happens: have, prepare, name · To what, where: grave stone, inscription

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 (few years, things), 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	_	12 had	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 couple	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 couple	amod
10	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
12	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stone	nmod:poss
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stone	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grave	punct
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
17	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 had	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 inscription	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 inscription	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 inscription	det
21	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prepared	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 names	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 names	nmod:poss
24	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 inscription	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 date	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 date	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 date	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 date	det
29	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past · perfect	a few years before this time	things's grave stone	the date obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	prepare in a quote	participle	a few years before this time not said here	a inscription and things's names		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Patient
3	name in a quote		things = thing			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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