Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 18

The coffin was carried to the grave, and the disconsolate mother sat with her young daughters.

Who acts: disconsolate mother · What happens: carry, sit · To what, where: coffin, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disconsolate mother), 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 coffin	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	aux:pass
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 grave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
11	disconsolate	disconsolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	compound
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 daughters	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughters	nmod:poss
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 daughters	amod
17	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive		the coffin		the grave			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to grave=Destination
2	sit	past	the disconsolate mother					with mother's young daughters	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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