Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 21

There at the open window sat the dead woman, preaching a sermon against sin--my poor faded rose out of the parsonage garden!"

What happens: sit, preach, fade, rise · To what, where: dead woman, open window, sermon, parsonage garden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 sat	expl
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 window	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 window	amod
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 preaching	punct
11	preaching	preach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sermon	det
13	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 preaching	obj
14	against	against	ADP	_	15 sin	case
15	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 preaching	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 rose	nmod:poss
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 faded	amod
19	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 rose	advcl
20	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	25 garden	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 garden	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 garden	det
24	parsonage	parsonage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 garden	compound
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rose	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the dead woman	the open window; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at window=Location
2	preach speech: other	gerund	a sermon		against sin	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sermon=Topic
3	fade	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	rise	past		the parsonage garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out garden=Location

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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