Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 261
I shall lay him in a black coffin, place it on my head, and fly away with it beyond the stars.
Who acts: I, place · What happens: lay, place, fly away · To what, where: man, black coffin, stars
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: who acts (I, place), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | aux |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 coffin | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coffin | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coffin | amod |
| 8 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coffin | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 place | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fly | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fly | cc |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 fly | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fly | obl |
| 21 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 23 stars | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stars | det |
| 23 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fly | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | shall | I | man | a black coffin and place | on my head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in coffin=Destination | ||
| 2 | place | place | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fly away | infinitive | I not said here | the stars | with place; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond star=Location |
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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