Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 99
A dead body had been found on the coast, and the peasants buried it in the churchyard.
Who acts: peasants · What happens: find, bury · To what, where: dead body, coast, body, churchyard
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants), 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 | 3 body | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 body | amod |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 buried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 buried | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasants | det |
| 13 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 buried | nsubj |
| 14 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 buried | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 churchyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 churchyard | det |
| 18 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | a dead body | the coast | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | the peasants | body | the churchyard | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in churchyard=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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