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title: But in the churchyard there were several new graves; and there also,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the churchyard there were several new graves; and there also, in the grass, close by the wall, stood the old church bell! Who acts: several new graves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 23

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But in the churchyard there were several new graves; and there also, in the grass, close by the wall, stood the old church bell!

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**Who acts:** several new graves · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** churchyard, old church bell

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several new graves), 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:pg27200:129:23
# text = But in the churchyard there were several new graves; and there also, in the grass, close by the wall, stood the old church bell!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	parataxis	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | several new graves |  |  | the churchyard; there |  | in the grass | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in churchyard=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the old church bell |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus |

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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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