Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 30

The many distinguished actors and actresses who had passed away must surely have a field for their talent.

Who acts: many distinguished actors · What happens: pass away, have · To what, where: actresses, field

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many distinguished actors), 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	4 actors	det
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 actors	amod
3	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 actors	amod
4	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 actresses	cc
6	actresses	actress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 actors	conj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 passed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	aux
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 actresses	acl:relcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 passed	advmod
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	surely	surely	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 field	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 talent	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 talent	nmod:poss
18	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 field	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	past · perfect · passive		actresses				away property	tree rules
2	have	must	the many distinguished actors and actresses	a field				for actors's talent; surely property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=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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