Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 30

But first he went into the churchyard; and, by his father's grave, he offered up a prayer, and said, "Farewell."

Who acts: John · What happens: go, offer up, say · To what, where: churchyard, prayer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 churchyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 churchyard	det
7	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offered	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 grave	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grave	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grave	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 offered	nsubj
18	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 offered	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 prayer	det
21	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offered	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Farewell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Farewell	punct
27	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	24 said	discourse
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	John		the churchyard	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into churchyard=Initial_Location
2	offer up	past	John	a prayer		by John's father's grave	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	John not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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