Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 20

The grave was bordered with pieces of flower-pots and strewn over with sand; quite at the top they had stuck up half a beer bottle, with the neck upwards, and that was not at all allegorical.

Who acts: that · What happens: border, stick up, not be · To what, where: grave, top

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bordered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bordered	aux:pass
4	bordered	border	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bordered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 pots	case
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pots	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 flower	punct
10	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pieces	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strewn	cc
12	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pieces	conj
13	over	over	ADV	_	12 strewn	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 sand	case
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strewn	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stuck	punct
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 top	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	nsubj:pass
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stuck	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stuck	aux
23	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bordered	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 stuck	compound:prt
25	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	28 bottle	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bottle	det
27	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottle	compound
28	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 neck	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 neck	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 neck	det
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	obl
33	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	23 stuck	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 allegorical	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 allegorical	cc
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 allegorical	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 allegorical	cop
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 allegorical	advmod
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 allegorical	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 allegorical	advmod
41	allegorical	allegorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bordered	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	border	past · passive		the grave	with pieces of flower pots	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	stick up	past · perfect · passive		the top	with the neck; upwards property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bottle=Destination
3	not is	past	that		allegorical property	tree rules

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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