Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 38

She laid aside the burden she carried, and sat down to rest upon the Hun's Grave.

Who acts: last · What happens: lay, carry, sit down, rest · To what, where: burden, Grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aside	aside	ADP	_	5 burden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 burden	det
5	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	nsubj
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burden	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sat	advcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 Grave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hun	det
16	Hun	Hun	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Grave	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Hun	case
18	Grave	Grave	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rest	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	last			aside the burden	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past	last	the burden not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme
3	sit down	past	last not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	last not said here		the Hun's Grave		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grave=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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