Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 37
The paved street now passes over the resting place of Old Preben and his wife; no one thinks of them any more now."
Who acts: paved street, one · What happens: pave, pass, think · To what, where: resting place
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 (paved street, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 street | det |
| 2 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 street | amod |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 passes | advmod |
| 5 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Preben | case |
| 11 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Preben | amod |
| 12 | Preben | Preben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wife | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Preben | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thinks | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thinks | nsubj |
| 19 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passes | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thinks | obl |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 now | advmod |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 thinks | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passes | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pave | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pass | present | the paved street | the resting place of Old Preben and street's wife | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over place=Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | no one | now | of others = other | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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