Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 69

One of these blocks had been placed by loving hands on a child's grave, and one of the women who had come out of the church walked up to it; she stood there, her eyes resting on the weather-beaten memorial, and a few moments afterwards her husband joined her.

Who acts: loving hands, one, church, grass, eyes, few moments · What happens: place, come out, walk up, stand, rest, beat · To what, where: One, grave, block, eyes, beaten memorial, grass

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 (loving hands, one, church, grass), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 placed	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 blocks	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 blocks	det
4	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hands	amod
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 placed	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 grave	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grave	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 child	case
15	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 come	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 women	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 women	det
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 placed	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 walked	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 church	det
28	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walked	nsubj
29	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 walked	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 walked	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 stood	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stood	nsubj
35	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	parataxis
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 stood	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 eyes	punct
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 eyes	nmod:poss
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stood	obl
40	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 eyes	acl
41	on	on	ADP	_	46 memorial	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 memorial	det
43	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 beaten	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 weather	punct
45	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 memorial	amod
46	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 resting	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 joined	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 joined	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 moments	det
50	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 moments	amod
51	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 joined	nsubj
52	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	55 joined	advmod
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 husband	nmod:poss
54	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 joined	nsubj
55	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stood	conj
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 joined	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · perfect · passive	loving hands	One of this blocks	a child's grave		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on grave=Destination
2	come out	past · perfect	one of the women			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	walk up	past	the church		block		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination
4	stand	past	grass	grass's eyes	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	gerund	grass's eyes not said here		the beaten memorial		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on memorial=Location
6	beat	participle					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	join	past	a few moments	grass		afterwards property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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