Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 5

It was, in fact, an old grave-stone.

Who acts: stone · What happens: be · To what, where: fact

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 (stone), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fact	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stone	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stone	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stone	amod
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stone	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grave	punct
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fact	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	stone			fact and a old grave stone			tree rules

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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