Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 16

When she awoke, and wanted to see her child, the husband, with tears, said, "We have closed the coffin; it was necessary to do so."

Who acts: mother, We · What happens: awake, want, see, say, close, be · To what, where: child, coffin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, We), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 child	nmod:poss
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 husband	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 husband	det
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tears	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 tears	case
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 closed	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 closed	punct
21	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 closed	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 closed	aux
23	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coffin	det
25	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 closed	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 necessary	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 necessary	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 necessary	cop
29	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 necessary	csubj
32	so	so	ADV	_	31 do	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 necessary	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	awake	past	mother			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	mother not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's child and the husband	with tears	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	close in a quote	present · perfect	We	the coffin		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient
6	is in a quote	past			necessary property	tree rules
7	do in a quote	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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