Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 3

In the yard, in an arbour formed by lilac bushes in full bloom, stood an open coffin; thither they had carried a dead man, who was to be buried that very afternoon.

What happens: form, stand, carry, bury · To what, where: arbour, full bloom, open coffin, people, dead man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 yard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yard	det
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 arbour	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arbour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arbour	det
7	arbour	arbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yard	appos
8	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 arbour	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 bushes	case
10	lilac	lilac	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bushes	amod
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 formed	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 bloom	case
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bloom	amod
14	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 formed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yard	punct
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 coffin	det
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 coffin	amod
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 carried	punct
21	thither	thither	ADV	_	24 carried	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carried	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 carried	aux
24	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stood	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carried	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 buried	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 buried	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 buried	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 buried	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 buried	aux:pass
33	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 man	acl:relcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 afternoon	mark
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 afternoon	advmod
36	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 buried	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	form	participle	a arbour not said here	full bloom	by lilac bushes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bush=Location
2	stand	past	a open coffin		in the yard	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme in yard=Destination
3	carry	past · perfect · passive	people		thither property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary man=Value
4	bury	past · passive	a dead man			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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