Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 37

He wishes that these chains may be placed in his coffin, for they witness to the world of the way in which a man's contemporaries reward good service.

Who acts: discoverer, contemporaries · What happens: wish, place, reward · To what, where: chains, coffin, good service, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discoverer, contemporaries), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wishes	nsubj
2	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 placed	mark
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 chains	det
5	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 placed	nsubj:pass
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 placed	aux:pass
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wishes	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 coffin	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coffin	nmod:poss
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 witness	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 witness	case
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 witness	nsubj
15	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 witness	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 world	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 reward	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contemporaries	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 man	case
27	contemporaries	contemporary	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reward	nsubj
28	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 service	amod
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reward	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	discoverer				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	place	may · passive		this chains	discoverer's coffin	for witness to the world of the way	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in coffin=Destination
3	reward	present	a man's contemporaries	good service	the way		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient

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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