Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 115

He was to be taken to the country to be buried there in his own grave; so they carried him away; no one followed him, for all his friends were dead; and the little boy kissed his hand to the coffin as the hearse moved away with it.

Who acts: steps, one, friends, little boy, hearse · What happens: take, bury, carry away, follow, be, kiss · To what, where: man, country, own grave, hand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steps, one, friends, little boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 taken	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 buried	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 buried	aux:pass
11	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 taken	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 buried	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 grave	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grave	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grave	amod
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buried	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 carried	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 carried	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 followed	nsubj
26	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 followed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dead	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 dead	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 friends	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dead	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dead	cop
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 followed	advcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 kissed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kissed	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boy	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boy	amod
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	nsubj
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hand	nmod:poss
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 coffin	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 coffin	det
45	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	obl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 moved	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 hearse	det
48	hearse	hearse	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 moved	nsubj
49	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 kissed	advcl
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 moved	advmod
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 moved	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		man	the country		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to country=Destination
2	bury	to-infinitive · passive			man's own grave; there		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in grave=Destination
3	carry away	past	steps = step	man		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	follow	past	no one	man			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is	past	man's friends			dead property	tree rules
6	kiss	past	the little boy	man's hand		to the coffin	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
7	move away	past	the hearse			with coffin; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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