Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 59
Let them bury the offenders out of sight, and keep their good temper.
Who acts: you, friends · What happens: let, bury, keep, temper · To what, where: friends, offenders, sight, good temper
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 (you, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 offenders | det |
| 5 | offenders | offender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bury | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bury | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 temper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 temper | amod |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | friends = friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | friends = friend not said here | the offenders | sight | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent offender=Theme out sight=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | friends's good temper | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | temper | friends = friend | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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