Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 49

For whom was that star intended?' thought I. It fell, no doubt, on the hill by the Bay of Plensberg, where the Danebrog waves over the graves of Schleppegrell, Lasloes, and their comrades.

Who acts: star, I., Danebrog · What happens: intend, be, fall, wave · To what, where: star, doubt, hill, comrades, graves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, I., Danebrog), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
6	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 star	acl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 intended	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 intended	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
10	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doubt	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 doubt	det
15	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hill	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 hill	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hill	det
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 Bay	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bay	det
22	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hill	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Plensberg	case
24	Plensberg	Plensberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Bay	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 waves	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 waves	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Danebrog	det
28	Danebrog	Danebrog	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 waves	nsubj
29	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hill	acl:relcl
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 graves	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 graves	det
32	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 waves	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Schleppegrell	case
34	Schleppegrell	Schleppegrell	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 graves	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Lasloes	punct
36	Lasloes	lasloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 graves	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 comrades	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 comrades	cc
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 comrades	nmod:poss
40	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 waves	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	intend	participle		star not said here			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	be speech: other	past	star			think property	tree rules
3	fall	past	I.	no doubt	the hill by the Bay of Plensberg		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hill=Location
4	wave	present	the Danebrog	stars's comrades	the graves of Schleppegrell and Lasloes		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Location

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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