Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 233

When years had gone by his skeleton was dug up, as the skeletons of the monks who had died before him had been; it was clad in a brown frock, a rosary was put into the bony hand, and the form was placed among the ranks of other skeletons in the cloisters of the convent.

Who acts: years, monks · What happens: go, dig up, die, have, clad, put · To what, where: skeleton, brown frock, rosary, bony hand, form, cloisters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, monks), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 dug	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skeleton	nmod:poss
7	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dug	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dug	aux:pass
9	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 dug	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 skeletons	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 skeletons	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skeletons	det
14	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 monks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monks	det
17	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 skeletons	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 died	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 died	aux
20	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 monks	acl:relcl
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 died	obl
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 skeletons	parataxis
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 had	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 clad	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 clad	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 clad	aux:pass
28	clad	clad	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 frock	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 frock	det
31	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 frock	amod
32	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clad	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 rosary	det
35	rosary	rosary	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 put	aux:pass
37	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 clad	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	41 hand	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hand	det
40	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hand	amod
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 placed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 placed	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 form	det
45	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 placed	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 placed	aux:pass
47	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 put	conj
48	among	among	ADP	_	50 ranks	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ranks	det
50	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 placed	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 skeletons	case
52	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 skeletons	amod
53	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 ranks	nmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 cloisters	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 cloisters	det
56	cloisters	cloister	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 placed	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 convent	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 convent	det
59	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 cloisters	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	years				as the skeletons of the monks	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dig up	past · passive		world's skeleton				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	die	past · perfect	the monks			before world		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	past						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	clad	past · passive		skeleton	a brown frock			tree rules
6	put	past · passive		a rosary	the bony hand			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
7	place	past · passive		the form	the cloisters of the convent		among the ranks of other skeletons	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among rank=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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