Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 162
They carried her to the churchyard, the churchyard in which the poor were buried.
Who acts: feet · What happens: carry, bury · To what, where: mother, churchyard, poor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 churchyard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 churchyard | det |
| 6 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 churchyard | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 churchyard | det |
| 9 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 churchyard | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 buried | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 poor | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 buried | aux:pass |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 churchyard | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | feet = foot | mother | the churchyard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to churchyard=Destination | |||
| 2 | bury | past · passive | the poor | the churchyard | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
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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