Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 31
In the evening the stone was taken to the churchyard, and laid on the grave.
What happens: take, lay · To what, where: stone, churchyard, grave
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 churchyard | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 churchyard | det |
| 10 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 grave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grave | det |
| 16 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the stone | the churchyard | evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to churchyard=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | participle | the grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grave=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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