Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 34

Perhaps the Story had been buried with the flowers; but then the flowers would have known of it, and the coffin would have heard it, and every little blade of grass that shot forth would have told of it.

Who acts: coffin, little blade · What happens: bury, know, hear, shoot, tell · To what, where: Story, flowers, flower, little blade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coffin, little blade), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 buried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Story	det
3	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 buried	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 buried	aux:pass
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buried	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 known	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 known	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flowers	det
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 known	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 known	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 known	aux
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 buried	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 known	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coffin	det
23	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 heard	aux
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 known	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 told	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 told	cc
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 blade	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 blade	amod
32	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 told	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 grass	case
34	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blade	nmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 shot	nsubj
36	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 blade	acl:relcl
37	forth	forth	ADV	_	36 shot	advmod
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 told	aux
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 told	aux
40	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 heard	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 told	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · perfect · passive		the Story		with the flowers; perhaps property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	know	would · perfect · passive		the flowers	then	of flag	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	hear	would · perfect	the coffin	flower			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	shoot	past	every little blade of grass			forth property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		every little blade of grass		of flower	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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