Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 4

The maids often laid the clean copper saucepans and kitchen vessels on this stone, that they might dry in the sun, and the children were fond of playing on it.

Who acts: maids, children · What happens: lay, dry, be, play · To what, where: clean copper saucepans, stone, sun

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 (maids, children), 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	2 maids	det
2	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laid	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 laid	advmod
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 saucepans	det
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saucepans	amod
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saucepans	compound
8	saucepans	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laid	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 vessels	cc
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vessels	compound
11	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saucepans	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dry	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 dry	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dry	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 dry	aux
19	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laid	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sun	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dry	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fond	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fond	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 children	det
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fond	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fond	cop
28	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laid	parataxis
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 playing	mark
30	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 fond	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 playing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the maids	the clean copper saucepans and kitchen vessels	this stone	often property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent saucepan=Theme on stone=Destination
2	dry	might	maids = maid		the sun		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the children			fond property	tree rules
4	play	gerund	the children not said here		stone		vn performance-26.7-1 «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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