Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 46

Out in the churchyard were several graves, and on some of them the grass had grown very high.

Who acts: several graves · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: churchyard, grass

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 (several graves), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	5 were	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 churchyard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 churchyard	det
4	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	obl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 graves	amod
7	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grown	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grown	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 grass	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 grass	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 some	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grown	obl
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grown	aux
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 were	conj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 high	advmod
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grown	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	several graves			the churchyard		out property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location
2	grow	past · perfect	several graves not said here			the grass		high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location

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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