Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 23

Or wouldst thou rather be buried in the sea?' '

What happens: bury · To what, where: thou, sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 buried	cc
2	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 buried	nsubj:pass
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 buried	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 buried	aux:pass
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	would · passive		thou		the sea			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sea=Destination

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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