Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 47

John thought of his father's grave, which he knew at last would look like these, as he was not there to weed and attend to it.

Who acts: John · What happens: think, know, look, not be, weed, attend · To what, where: grave, churchyard · 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 grave	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 father	case
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knew	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grave	acl:relcl
12	at	at	SCONJ	_	15 look	mark
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 look	amod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 knew	ccomp
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 these	case
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 weed	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 there	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 there	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 there	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 there	advmod
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 weed	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 weed	mark
25	weed	weed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 look	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 attend	cc
27	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 weed	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 attend	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	John			of John's father's grave	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	John	John's father's grave			tree rules
3	look	would				like these	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not is	past	John			there property	tree rules
5	weed	to-infinitive					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	attend	infinitive			churchyard		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to it=Theme

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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