Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 188
The poor school-boys did not even sing a psalm when the former lord of Borreby was laid in the earth to rest.
Who acts: poor school boys · What happens: not sing, lay, rest · To what, where: psalm, former lord, earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor school 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 | 5 boys | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boys | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 school | punct |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sing | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sing | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sing | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 sing | advmod |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 psalm | det |
| 11 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sing | obj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 laid | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lord | det |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lord | amod |
| 15 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Borreby | case |
| 17 | Borreby | Borreby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lord | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 laid | aux:pass |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sing | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 rest | mark |
| 24 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 laid | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express | past · do-support | the poor school boys | a psalm | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | the former lord of Borreby | the earth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in earth=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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