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title: In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelled into the earth, and nettles will soon be growing rankly over his grave, and the sexton will throw thorns and weeds from the other graves upon it." Who acts: nettles, sexton. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 23

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In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelled into the earth, and nettles will soon be growing rankly over his grave, and the sexton will throw thorns and weeds from the other graves upon it."

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**Who acts:** nettles, sexton · **What happens:** shovell, grow, throw · **To what, where:** corpse, corner, grave, thorns, other graves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nettles, sexton), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:109:23
# text = In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelled into the earth, and nettles will soon be growing rankly over his grave, and the sexton will throw thorns and weeds from the other graves upon it."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shovelled	shovell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	rankly	rankly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
34	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shovell** | past · passive |  | the corpse of the suicide |  | a corner of the churchyard |  | into the earth | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | future · progressive | nettles |  |  | driver's grave |  | rankly, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Location |
| 3 | **throw** | future | the sexton | thorns and weeds |  | the other graves |  | upon corpse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme from grave=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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