Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 44

She sank deeper than the spade of the sexton could penetrate, till the churchyard became a roof above her.

Who acts: spectre, spade, churchyard · What happens: sink, penetrate, become · To what, where: roof

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 (spectre, spade, churchyard), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sank	xcomp
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 penetrate	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spade	det
6	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 penetrate	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sexton	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sexton	det
9	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spade	nmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 penetrate	aux
11	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 deeper	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 became	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 churchyard	det
15	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 roof	det
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
19	above	above	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sink	past	spectre		deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	penetrate	could	the spade of the sexton			vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	the churchyard	a roof	above spectre	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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