Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 212

The nightcap, however, was not placed on his head in his coffin; he had a clean white one on then.

Who acts: tree · What happens: not place, have · To what, where: nightcap, head, clean white one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nightcap	det
2	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nightcap	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 placed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 placed	advmod
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 coffin	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coffin	nmod:poss
14	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 one	det
19	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 then	case
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 had	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not place	past · passive		the nightcap		tree's head in tree's coffin		however property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on head=Destination
2	have	past	tree	a clean white one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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