Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 6
"Yes," said the master of the house, "I believe the stone came from the graveyard of the old church of the convent which was pulled down, and the pulpit, the monuments, and the grave-stones sold.
Who acts: master, stone · What happens: say, believe, come, pull down, sell · To what, where: graveyard, convent, grave stones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 master | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 graveyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 graveyard | det |
| 20 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 church | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 church | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 church | amod |
| 24 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 graveyard | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 convent | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 convent | det |
| 27 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 church | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 pulled | aux:pass |
| 30 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 convent | acl:relcl |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 pulled | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pulpit | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pulpit | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pulpit | det |
| 35 | pulpit | pulpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 believe | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 monuments | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 monuments | det |
| 38 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pulpit | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sold | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sold | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 stones | det |
| 42 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stones | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 grave | punct |
| 44 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 believe | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master of the house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present | the master of the house = master | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | the stone | the graveyard of the old church of the convent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from graveyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | pull down in a quote | past · passive | the convent | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sell in a quote | participle · passive | the grave stones | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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