Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 15

The son walked behind the coffin which contained his father, whom he so dearly loved, and would never again behold.

Who acts: son, coffin · What happens: walk, contain, love · To what, where: coffin, father

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, coffin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 coffin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coffin	det
6	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 contained	nsubj
8	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coffin	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contained	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 loved	punct
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 loved	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 loved	nsubj
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 loved	advmod
15	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	16 loved	advmod
16	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 father	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 again	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 again	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 again	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 again	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
22	behold	behold	INTJ	_	21 again	discourse
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the son		the coffin	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind coffin=Trajectory
2	contain	past	the coffin	son's father				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot father=Theme
3	love	participle	son	son's father			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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