Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 26

Perhaps he had been long laid in the grave, and would never come back to his home, to rule where his mother then ruled.

Who acts: mother · What happens: lay, not come back, rule · To what, where: husband, grave, home

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laid	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 laid	aux:pass
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 laid	advmod
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 come	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 home	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 home	nmod:poss
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rule	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rule	mark
21	rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 come	parataxis
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 ruled	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ruled	nsubj
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 ruled	advmod
26	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rule	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past · perfect · passive		husband	the grave		long, perhaps property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination
2	not come back	would			husband's home			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
3	rule	to-infinitive						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rule	past	husband's mother			then		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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