Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 64

The boys only came the next morning; when they saw the dead bird, they began to cry bitterly, dug a nice grave for it, and adorned it with flowers.

Who acts: boys · What happens: come, see, begin, cry, dig, adorn · To what, where: dead bird, nice grave, drop

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cry	mark
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	19 cry	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dug	punct
22	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 grave	det
24	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grave	amod
25	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dug	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dug	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 adorned	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 adorned	cc
30	adorned	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 adorned	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 flowers	case
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 adorned	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the boys		morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	boys = boy	the dead bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	begin	past	boys = boy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dig	past	boys = boy not said here	a nice grave		for drop	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grave=Result for it=Beneficiary
6	adorn	past	the boys not said here	drop		with flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with flower=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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