Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 6

She could not realize the fact that the child was dead, and must be laid in a coffin to rest in the ground.

Who acts: mother, child · What happens: not realize, be, lay, rest · To what, where: fact, coffin, ground

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, child), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 realize	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 realize	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 realize	advmod
4	realize	realize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fact	det
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 realize	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 dead	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dead	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fact	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 laid	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 laid	aux:pass
16	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 realize	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 coffin	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 coffin	det
19	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 laid	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rest	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 realize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not realize	could	mother	the fact			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus
2	is	past	the child	the fact not said here		dead property	tree rules
3	lay	must · passive	mother not said here		a coffin		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in coffin=Destination
4	rest	to-infinitive	mother not said here		the ground		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location

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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