Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 188

On the grave, close by the churchyard wall, they planted a rose-tree; it was soon full of roses, and the nightingale sat among the flowers, and sang over the grave.

Who acts: walls, tree, nightingale · What happens: plant, be, sit, sing · To what, where: rose tree, grave, flowers

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 (walls, tree, nightingale), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 grave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grave	det
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 planted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 close	punct
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grave	amod
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
8	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wall	compound
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grave	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 planted	nsubj
12	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
14	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 rose	punct
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 planted	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 full	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 full	cop
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 full	advmod
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 planted	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 roses	case
23	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 nightingale	det
27	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 planted	conj
29	among	among	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flowers	det
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sat	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sang	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sang	cc
34	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 planted	conj
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 grave	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 grave	det
37	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sang	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plant	past	walls = wall	a rose tree	the grave		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme on grave=Destination
2	is	past	tree			of roses; full, soon property	tree rules
3	sit	past	the nightingale		the flowers		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among flower=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	walls = wall not said here		the grave		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=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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