Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 190

The moon shone down upon the grave, but the dead was not there; every child could go safely, even at night, and pluck a rose from the tree by the churchyard wall.

Who acts: moon, dead, child · What happens: shine down, not be, go, pluck · To what, where: grave, rose, tree

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 (moon, dead, child), 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	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 grave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 there	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 there	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dead	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 there	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 there	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shone	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shone	parataxis
20	safely	safely	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 night	punct
22	even	even	ADV	_	24 night	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 night	case
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pluck	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pluck	cc
27	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rose	det
29	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pluck	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 tree	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pluck	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 wall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wall	det
35	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wall	compound
36	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pluck	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine down	past	the moon		the grave		down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grave=Location
2	not is	past	the dead				there property	tree rules
3	go	could	every child			night	safely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pluck	infinitive	every child not said here	a rose	the tree		by the churchyard wall	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rose=Theme from tree=Source

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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