Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 28

The white thorn and the dog rose now blossom above the place where the church lies buried, but the spire, like an enormous monument over a grave, can be seen for miles round.

Who acts: white thorn, church · What happens: rise, blossom, lie, bury, see · To what, where: place, spire

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 (white thorn, church), 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	3 thorn	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thorn	amod
3	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dog	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thorn	conj
7	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 blossom	advmod
9	blossom	blossom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rose	advcl
10	above	above	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blossom	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lies	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lies	nsubj
16	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 place	advcl
17	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lies	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 seen	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spire	det
21	spire	spire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 monument	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 monument	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 monument	det
25	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 monument	amod
26	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spire	appos
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 grave	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 grave	det
29	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 monument	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spire	punct
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rose	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 miles	case
35	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seen	obl
36	round	round	ADV	_	33 seen	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the white thorn and the dog				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blossom	present	the white thorn and the dog not said here	the place	now		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme
3	lie	present	the church				tree rules
4	bury	participle	the church not said here				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	can · passive		the spire		for miles; round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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