Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 55

Here lies an old grave-stone, which was brought here many years ago from the churchyard of the provincial town, a remembrance of one of the most honored councillors of the place; his wife and his five daughters, all with folded hands and stiff ruffs, stand round him.

Who acts: wife · What happens: lie, bring, honor, fold, stand · To what, where: old grave stone, churchyard

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 (wife), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lies	advmod
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grave	punct
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 brought	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux:pass
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stone	acl:relcl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 brought	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ago	obl:unmarked
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 brought	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 churchyard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 churchyard	det
18	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
21	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 town	amod
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 churchyard	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remembrance	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 remembrance	det
25	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 town	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 remembrance	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 councillors	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 councillors	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 honored	advmod
31	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 councillors	amod
32	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 place	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 place	det
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 councillors	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 stand	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stand	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 daughters	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 daughters	nmod:poss
41	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 daughters	nummod
42	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wife	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 stand	punct
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 stand	nsubj
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 hands	case
46	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 hands	amod
47	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 all	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 ruffs	cc
49	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 ruffs	amod
50	ruffs	ruff	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 hands	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 stand	punct
52	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lies	parataxis
53	round	round	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 stand	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present		a old grave stone	here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past · passive		a old grave stone	the churchyard of the provincial town; here	ago property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from churchyard=Initial_Location
3	honor	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	stand	infinitive	vaccination's wife and vaccination's five daughters			round vaccination	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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