Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 249

Out of the grave in which the young nun was to be laid they lifted, in the rosy morning, a wonderful statue of a Psyche carved in white marble.

Who acts: blocks · What happens: lay, lift, carve · To what, where: young nun, grave, Psyche, white marble

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 (blocks), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 grave	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 grave	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grave	det
4	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifted	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laid	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nun	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nun	amod
9	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 laid	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 laid	aux:pass
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grave	acl:relcl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lifted	nsubj
15	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 morning	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 morning	det
19	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 morning	amod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifted	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 statue	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 statue	det
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 statue	amod
24	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 morning	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Psyche	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Psyche	det
27	Psyche	psyche	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 statue	nmod
28	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 Psyche	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 marble	case
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 marble	amod
31	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carved	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lay	past · passive	blocks = block not said here	the young nun	the grave		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
2	lift	past	blocks = block		the grave	morning	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent out grave=Destination
3	carve	participle		a Psyche not said here	white marble		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in marble=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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