Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 66
The service was over, and the congregation passed out into the churchyard, where not a tree or bush was to be seen; no flowers were planted there, and they had not placed a single wreath upon any of the graves.
Who acts: service, congregation · What happens: be, pass out, see, plant, not place · To what, where: churchyard, tree, flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service, congregation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 service | det |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 passed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 congregation | det |
| 8 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 passed | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 churchyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 churchyard | det |
| 13 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | advmod |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 tree | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 bush | cc |
| 20 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | conj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 churchyard | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 planted | punct |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 flowers | det |
| 27 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 planted | aux:pass |
| 29 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 passed | parataxis |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 planted | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 placed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 placed | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 placed | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 placed | advmod |
| 36 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 planted | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 wreath | det |
| 38 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wreath | amod |
| 39 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 placed | obj |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 any | case |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 placed | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 graves | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 graves | det |
| 44 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 any | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the service | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass out | past | the congregation | the churchyard | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the congregation not said here | a tree or bush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | plant | past · passive | no flowers | there | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not place | past · perfect · passive | flowers = flower | upon any | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme wreath=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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