Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 56

Then I bury them, as it were; there they lie, dead and powerless, till they come back new and better characters.

Who acts: I, friends · What happens: bury, be, lie, come back · To what, where: friends

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, friends), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bury	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bury	nsubj
3	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bury	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 it	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bury	obl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lie	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dead	punct
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 powerless	cc
16	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dead	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 characters	cc
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 characters	amod
25	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 new	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	I	friends = friend		then		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past					as ground	tree rules
3	lie	present	friends = friend		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come back	present	friends = friend				new property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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