Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 150

However, he had a splendid funeral, with the city flags and music in the procession; flowers were strewn on the pavement, and three orations were spoken over his grave, each one longer than the other.

Who acts: widow · What happens: have, strewn, speak · To what, where: splendid funeral, flowers, pavement, three orations, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 funeral	det
6	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 funeral	amod
7	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flags	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 flags	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flags	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flags	compound
12	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 music	cc
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flags	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 procession	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 procession	det
17	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 music	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 strewn	punct
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 strewn	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 strewn	aux:pass
21	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 pavement	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pavement	det
24	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strewn	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spoken	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spoken	cc
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 orations	nummod
28	orations	oration	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 spoken	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 spoken	aux:pass
30	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 strewn	parataxis
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 grave	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 grave	nmod:poss
33	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spoken	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grave	conj
37	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 spoken	advmod
38	than	than	ADP	_	40 other	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 longer	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	widow	a splendid funeral		with the city flags and music in the procession; however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Patient
2	strewn	past · passive		flowers	the pavement		tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past · passive		three orations	widow's grave and each one	long property	tree rules

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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