Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 237
Skulls were piled up till they formed an outer wall around the church; and there lay also his head in the burning sun, for many dead were there, and no one knew their names, and his name was forgotten also.
Who acts: Skulls, one, sun · What happens: pile up, form, lie, be, know, forget · To what, where: Skulls, outer wall, church, head, burning sun, names
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 (Skulls, one, sun), 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 | Skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 piled | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 piled | aux:pass |
| 3 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 piled | compound:prt |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 formed | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 formed | nsubj |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 piled | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 9 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wall | amod |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | obj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lay | advmod |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 piled | parataxis |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 head | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sun | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 23 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sun | compound |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dead | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 dead | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dead | amod |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lay | advcl |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 there | cop |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 dead | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knew | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 knew | cc |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lay | advcl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 names | nmod:poss |
| 37 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 knew | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 forgotten | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 forgotten | cc |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 name | nmod:poss |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 43 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lay | conj |
| 44 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 forgotten | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | past · passive | Skulls | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | form | past | Skulls = skull | a outer wall | the church | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie | past | Church's head | the burning sun; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | past | no one | Skulls's names | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | forget | past · passive | sun's name | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | name | Skulls = skull | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | name | sun | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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