Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 26
She was buried; two large tears rolled over the cheeks of the earnest man, and in the parsonage it was empty and still, for its sun had set for ever.
Who acts: parsonage · What happens: bury, roll, be, set · To what, where: soul, two large tears, cheeks, parsonage, sun
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 (parsonage), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | aux:pass |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 tears | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tears | nummod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tears | amod |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buried | obl |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tears | acl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 cheeks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cheeks | det |
| 11 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rolled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cheeks | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 empty | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 empty | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 parsonage | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 parsonage | det |
| 20 | parsonage | parsonage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 empty | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 empty | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 empty | cop |
| 23 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 buried | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 still | cc |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 empty | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 set | mark |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sun | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 set | aux |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 buried | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 ever | case |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 set | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · passive | soul | two large tears obl | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | participle | two large tears not said here | the cheeks of the earnest man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cheek=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | parsonage | the parsonage | empty property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | set | past · perfect · passive | parsonage's sun | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for ever=Beneficiary |
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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