Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 99

The sand had heaped itself up round the walls of the church, but the graves were kept free from it.

What happens: heap up, keep · To what, where: sand, graves, church

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heaped	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heaped	aux
4	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 heaped	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 heaped	compound:prt
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heaped	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 church	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 church	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 graves	det
16	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	aux:pass
18	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heaped	parataxis
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	xcomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heap up	past · perfect · passive		the sand				round the walls of the church	tree rules
2	keep	past · passive		the graves		church		free property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from it=Eventuality

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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