Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 258
He shall be laid in his coffin, but not yet.
What happens: lay · To what, where: man, coffin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 laid | aux:pass |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coffin | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yet | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 yet | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 yet | advmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 laid | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | shall · passive | man | man's coffin | yet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in coffin=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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