Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 36

And so it happened that this stone was not cut in two as many others had been, but now lies in the courtyard below, a scouring block for the maids, and a playground for the children.

Who acts: it, two many others · What happens: happen, not cut in, be, lie, scour · To what, where: playground, stone, 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 (it, two many others), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 happened	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cut	advmod
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	12 two	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 others	nummod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 others	amod
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 been	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 been	aux
17	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cut	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lies	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 lies	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 lies	advmod
21	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 courtyard	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 courtyard	det
24	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lies	obl
25	below	below	ADV	_	24 courtyard	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 block	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 block	det
28	scouring	scour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 block	amod
29	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 courtyard	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 maids	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 maids	det
32	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 block	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 playground	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 playground	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 playground	det
36	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 children	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 children	det
39	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 playground	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	past	it	a playground for the children			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not cut in	past · passive		this stone			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	be	past · perfect	two many others				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	present			the courtyard and a scouring block for the maids	now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location
5	scour	gerund					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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