Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 35

Afterwards, when the same fate befell the convent church, and the graveyard was destroyed, the grave-stone of Preben and Martha, like everything else, was sold to whoever would buy it.

Who acts: same fate, whoever · What happens: befall, destroy, sell, buy · To what, where: convent church, graveyard

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 (same fate, whoever), 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	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 befell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 befell	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 befell	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fate	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fate	amod
6	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 befell	nsubj
7	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
9	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 church	compound
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 befell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 destroyed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 destroyed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 graveyard	det
14	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 destroyed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 destroyed	aux:pass
16	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 befell	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stone	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stone	det
19	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stone	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 grave	punct
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 destroyed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Preben	case
23	Preben	Preben	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stone	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Martha	cc
25	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Preben	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 everything	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 everything	case
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 destroyed	parataxis
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 everything	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sold	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sold	aux:pass
32	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 befell	conj
33	to	to	SCONJ	_	36 buy	mark
34	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 buy	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 buy	aux
36	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sold	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 buy	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 befell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	befall	past	the same fate	the convent church	afterwards property	tree rules
2	destroy	past · passive		the graveyard	the grave stone of Preben and Martha obl	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sell	past · passive	the same fate not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»
4	buy	would	whoever	graveyard		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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