Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 246
A grave was being dug in the convent garden for a young nun who had died, and was to be laid in the earth this morning.
Who acts: young nun · What happens: dig, die, lay · To what, where: grave, convent garden, earth
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 (young nun), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 grave | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dug | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dug | aux:pass |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 8 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 garden | compound |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 nun | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nun | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nun | amod |
| 13 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 died | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 died | aux |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 nun | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laid | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laid | aux:pass |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 laid | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 laid | aux:pass |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dug | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 earth | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past · passive | a grave | the convent garden | for a young nun | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for nun=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | a young nun | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | the earth this morning | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in earth=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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