Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 17

Merchant Bronne had himself been at Hamlet's grave; they spoke about old times, and about their neighbours, the English and the Scotch, and Jurgen sang the air of "The King of England's Son," and of his splendid ship and its outfit.

Who acts: Merchant, grave, Jurgen · What happens: have, speak, sing · To what, where: Merchant, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merchant, grave, Jurgen), 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	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Merchant	appos
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 had	obj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	aux
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 grave	case
7	Hamlet	Hamlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Hamlet	case
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 been	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 spoke	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spoke	nsubj
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spoke	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 English	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 English	cc
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 neighbours	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neighbours	nmod:poss
20	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 English	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 neighbours	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 English	det
23	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Scotch	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Scotch	det
26	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 English	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sang	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sang	cc
29	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sang	nsubj
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sang	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 King	case
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 King	punct
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 air	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 Son	case
38	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Son	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 England	case
40	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 King	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Son	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 Son	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ship	cc
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 ship	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 ship	nmod:poss
46	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ship	amod
47	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Son	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 outfit	cc
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 outfit	nmod:poss
50	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ship	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	participle	Merchant	Merchant		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	speak speech: other	past	grave		time	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	Jurgen	the air of the King of England's Son and Merchant's splendid ship and ship's outfit		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme

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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