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title: Here lies an old grave-stone, which was brought here many years ago… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here lies an old grave-stone, which was brought here many years ago from the churchyard of the provincial town, a remembrance of one of the most honored councillors of the place; his wife and his five daughters, all with folded hands and stiff ruffs, stand round him. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «F
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 55

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Here lies an old grave-stone, which was brought here many years ago from the churchyard of the provincial town, a remembrance of one of the most honored councillors of the place; his wife and his five daughters, all with folded hands and stiff ruffs, stand round him.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** lie, bring, honor, fold, stand · **To what, where:** old grave stone, churchyard

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg27200:211:55
# text = Here lies an old grave-stone, which was brought here many years ago from the churchyard of the provincial town, a remembrance of one of the most honored councillors of the place; his wife and his five daughters, all with folded hands and stiff ruffs, stand round him.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	nsubj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	_
47	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	ruffs	ruff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
53	round	round	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | a old grave stone |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | a old grave stone |  | the churchyard of the provincial town; here |  | ago *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from churchyard=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | infinitive | vaccination's wife and vaccination's five daughters |  |  |  |  | round vaccination | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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