Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 99

In the evening there was a hearse seen before the door, and he was borne into it in his coffin: he was now to go out into the country, to lie in his grave.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, see, bear, lie · To what, where: hearse, boy, country, grave

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearse	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hearse	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hearse	det
7	hearse	hearse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hearse	acl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 borne	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 borne	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 borne	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 borne	aux:pass
16	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hearse	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 borne	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 coffin	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 coffin	nmod:poss
21	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 borne	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 go	cop
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 go	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hearse	parataxis
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 country	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 country	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lie	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 lie	mark
34	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 grave	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 grave	nmod:poss
37	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lie	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hearse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a hearse		evening		tree rules
2	see	participle		a hearse not said here		before the door		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	bear	past · passive		boy	hearse		in boy's coffin	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	boy		the country	now	go, out property	tree rules
5	lie	to-infinitive	boy not said here		boy's grave			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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