Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 76

Now we are near the church; it stands on a high hill, under the spreading oak trees; one of them is half dead!

Who acts: we, church, one · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: church, high hill

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, church, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 church	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 church	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 church	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 stands	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stands	nsubj
9	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 church	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 hill	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hill	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hill	amod
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stands	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trees	punct
15	under	under	ADP	_	19 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
17	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 oak	compound
18	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stands	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 dead	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 dead	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dead	cop
25	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 dead	advmod
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 church	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 church	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we	the church	now		tree rules
2	stand	present	church	a high hill		under the oak trees	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
3	is	present	one of hens			dead, half 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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