Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 61

Then she brought the heaviest stones that she could carry, and laid them over the dead body, filling up the crevices with moss, till she thought she had fenced in his resting-place strongly enough.

Who acts: animal · What happens: bring, carry, lay, fill up, think, fence · To what, where: heaviest stones, leaves, dead body, crevices, resting place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stones	det
5	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 stones	amod
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 carry	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carry	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	aux
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brought	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laid	cc
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 body	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 body	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 body	amod
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 filling	punct
20	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 laid	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 filling	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crevices	det
23	crevices	crevice	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filling	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 moss	case
25	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 filling	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	conj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fenced	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fenced	aux
32	fenced	fence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 thought	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 place	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 place	nmod:poss
35	resting	resting	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 resting	punct
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fenced	obl
38	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	39 enough	advmod
39	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 fenced	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	animal	the heaviest stones		then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	carry	could	animal					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	animal not said here	leaves = leaf	the dead body			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over body=Destination
4	fill up	gerund	animal not said here	the crevices			with moss	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crevice=Patient with moss=Instrument
5	think speech: other	past	animal					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	fence	past · perfect	animal		skin's resting place		enough property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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