Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 128

The child that lay beneath the ocean, and whose spirit could have no rest until it was carried to the churchyard, and until a grave had been dug for it in consecrated ground.

Who acts: child, spirit · What happens: lie, have, carry, dig, consecrate · To what, where: ocean, rest, churchyard, grave, consecrated ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, spirit), 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 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 ocean	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 spirit	nmod:poss
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 carried	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carried	aux:pass
19	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 have	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 churchyard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 churchyard	det
22	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dug	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dug	cc
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 dug	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 grave	det
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dug	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dug	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 dug	aux:pass
30	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dug	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 ground	amod
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dug	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the child		the ocean		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath ocean=Location
2	have	could	spirit	no rest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
3	carry	past · passive		rest	the churchyard		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to churchyard=Destination
4	dig	past · perfect · passive		a grave	consecrated ground	for rest	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for it=Beneficiary
5	consecrate	participle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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