Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 58

Two such wicked persons stood now by the dead man, who had been brought to the church to be buried.

Who acts: Two such wicked persons · What happens: stand, bring, bury · To what, where: dead man, church

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 (Two such wicked persons), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 persons	amod
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 persons	amod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stood	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 brought	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 brought	aux:pass
15	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 church	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 church	det
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 buried	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 buried	aux:pass
21	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 church	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Two such wicked persons			now	by the dead man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by man=Location
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		the dead man	the church			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to church=Destination
3	bury	to-infinitive · passive						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»

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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