Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 98

He took great pains not to open the book in the place where the funeral hymns were, and yet he got one that referred to the grave and death.

Who acts: moon, funeral hymns · What happens: take, not open, be, refer · To what, where: great pains, book, place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, funeral hymns), 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	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pains	amod
4	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 open	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 open	mark
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 got	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hymns	det
15	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hymns	compound
16	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 got	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 got	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 got	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 got	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 place	acl:relcl
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 got	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 referred	nsubj
25	referred	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 grave	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grave	det
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 referred	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 death	cc
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grave	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	moon	great pains				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
2	not open	to-infinitive	moon not said here	the book	the place			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme in place=Location
3	is	past	the funeral hymns			yet	get property	tree rules
4	refer	past					to the grave and death	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to grave=Co-Theme

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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