Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 215

Ib's house was well and prettily furnished; for he was a prosperous man now, while the mother of the little girl rested in the churchyard at Copenhagen, where she had died in poverty.

Who acts: Ib, mother · What happens: furnish, be, rest, die · To what, where: house, little girl, churchyard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, mother), 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	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ib	case
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 furnished	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 furnished	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 furnished	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 furnished	cc
7	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	8 furnished	advmod
8	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 man	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 man	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 furnished	conj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 man	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 mother	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mother	det
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 furnished	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 girl	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 girl	amod
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nmod
25	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 girl	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 churchyard	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 churchyard	det
28	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rested	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 Copenhagen	case
30	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 churchyard	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 died	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 died	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 died	aux
35	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 Copenhagen	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 poverty	case
37	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 furnished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	furnish	past · passive		Ib's house			the mother of the little girl obl; prettily, well property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	is	past	Ib			now	for a prosperous man	tree rules
3	rest	participle		the little girl not said here	the churchyard at Copenhagen			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location
4	die	past · perfect	mother				in poverty	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in poverty=Attribute

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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