Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 109

At about two miles from our cottage, where the earth on the hill is sheltered by a few scattered trees, stood the little church, with a silver lamp hanging before the altar.

Who acts: few scattered trees, silver lamp · What happens: shelter, stand, hang · To what, where: earth, little church, altar

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few scattered trees, silver lamp), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 miles	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 two	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 miles	nummod
4	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stood	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cottage	nmod:poss
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 miles	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sheltered	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 sheltered	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sheltered	nsubj:pass
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 hill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 earth	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sheltered	aux:pass
16	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cottage	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	21 trees	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trees	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trees	amod
20	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	21 trees	amod
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sheltered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 miles	punct
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 church	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 church	amod
26	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lamp	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 lamp	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lamp	det
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lamp	compound
31	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
32	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 lamp	acl
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 altar	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 altar	det
35	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hanging	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shelter	present · passive	a few scattered trees	the earth on the hill			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	stand	past		the little church		at two miles from our cottage; with a silver lamp	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent church=Theme at mile=Destination
3	hang	gerund	a silver lamp not said here		the altar		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location

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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