Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 21

It was autumn; the trees dropped their leaves, the earnest and severe pastor sat at the bedside of a dying person.

Who acts: wickedness, trees, earnest · What happens: be, drop, sit, die · To what, where: autumn, leaves, bedside

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wickedness, trees, earnest), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 autumn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 autumn	cop
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 autumn	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 leaves	nmod:poss
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 earnest	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earnest	det
12	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 sat	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pastor	cc
14	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pastor	amod
15	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 earnest	conj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 bedside	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bedside	det
19	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 person	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
22	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 person	amod
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bedside	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	wickedness	autumn		tree rules
2	drop	past	the trees	trees's leaves		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	sit	past	the earnest and severe pastor		the bedside of a dying person	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bedside=Location
4	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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