Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 101

A wise man in the district advised them to open the grave and see if the buried man was not lying sucking his thumb, for if so he must be a sailor, and the sea would not rest until it had got him back.

Who acts: wise man, peasants, buried man, man, sea · What happens: advise, open, see, bury, not lie, suck · To what, where: peasants, grave, thumb, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise man, peasants, buried man, man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advised	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 district	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 district	det
6	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 advised	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 open	mark
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 advised	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grave	det
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 open	conj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 lying	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lying	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 lying	advmod
21	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 see	ccomp
22	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 lying	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 thumb	nmod:poss
24	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sucking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sailor	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	33 sailor	case
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 sailor	mark
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 sailor	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sailor	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sailor	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sailor	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sailor	det
33	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sucking	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rest	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rest	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sea	det
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rest	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 rest	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 rest	advmod
40	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 open	conj
41	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 got	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 got	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 got	aux
44	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 rest	advcl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 got	obj
46	back	back	ADV	_	44 got	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past	a wise man in the district	peasants = peasant		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	peasants = peasant not said here	the grave		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grave=Theme
3	see	infinitive	peasants = peasant not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bury	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not lie a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the buried man			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	suck	gerund	the buried man not said here	man's thumb		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent thumb=Source
7	is	must	man		for a sailor	tree rules
8	not rest	would	the sea			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get back	past · perfect	sea	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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