Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 83
In the churchyard where the walls were surrounded with sand Clara lay buried.
Who acts: Clara · What happens: surround, lie, bury · To what, where: walls
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 (Clara), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 churchyard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 churchyard | det |
| 3 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrounded | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 surrounded | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 walls | det |
| 6 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrounded | obl |
| 11 | Clara | Clara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 13 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lay | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | the walls | with sand; in the churchyard | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination in churchyard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Clara | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bury | participle | Clara not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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