Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 7

My father bought the latter; most of them were cut in two and used for paving-stones, but that one stone was preserved whole, and laid in the courtyard."

Who acts: father · What happens: buy, cut, use, preserve, lay · To what, where: latter, most, two, one 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 (father), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	nsubj
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 latter	det
5	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bought	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 cut	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 most	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	aux:pass
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bought	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 two	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cut	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 used	cc
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cut	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 stones	case
17	paving	paving	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stones	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 paving	punct
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 preserved	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 preserved	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 preserved	mark
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 stone	nummod
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 preserved	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 preserved	aux:pass
26	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bought	parataxis
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 preserved	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 laid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 laid	cc
30	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 preserved	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 courtyard	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 courtyard	det
33	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laid	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	past	My father	the latter			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latter=Theme
2	cut	past · passive		most of monuments	two		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	use	participle				for paving stones	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	preserve	past · passive		one stone		whole property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
5	lay	participle			the courtyard		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Destination

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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