Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 25

They came to the conclusion that one of the great waves, which had rolled far up on the beach, had carried him away; but his body lay buried in a great sepulchre--the church itself.

Who acts: dunes · What happens: come, roll, carry away, bury · To what, where: conclusion, great waves, beach, Jurgen, body, great sepulchre

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dunes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 conclusion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 conclusion	det
5	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 one	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 came	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 waves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 waves	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 waves	amod
11	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rolled	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 rolled	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rolled	aux
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 waves	acl:relcl
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	15 rolled	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 beach	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beach	det
20	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carried	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 carried	aux
23	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 carried	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 buried	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 buried	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 body	nmod:poss
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 buried	nsubj:pass
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 buried	aux:pass
31	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 sepulchre	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sepulchre	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sepulchre	amod
35	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 buried	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 church	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 church	det
38	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sepulchre	appos
39	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	38 church	nmod:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	dunes = dune		the conclusion		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
2	roll	past · perfect · passive		the great waves	the beach		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on beach=Trajectory
3	carry away	past · perfect	dunes = dune not said here	Jurgen		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	bury	past · passive		Jurgen's body	a great sepulchre		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sepulchre=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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