Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 61

When the time comes for the history of my life, to be bound by the grave, then they will write upon it as my epitaph--

Who acts: time, grave, friends · What happens: come, bind, write

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 (time, grave, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 comes	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 write	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 history	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 history	det
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 history	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bound	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	14 bound	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 bound	aux:pass
14	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 comes	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 grave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grave	det
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bound	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 write	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 write	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 write	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 write	aux
22	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 write	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 epitaph	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 epitaph	nmod:poss
27	epitaph	epitaph	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 write	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the time		for the history of my life	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bind	to-infinitive · passive	the grave			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	write	future	friends = friend	then	upon grave; as my epitaph	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as epitaph=Attribute

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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