Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 16

He heard the earth fall on the coffin-lid, and watched it till only a corner remained in sight, and at last that also disappeared.

Who acts: son, earth, that · What happens: hear, fall, watch, remain, disappear · To what, where: coffin lid, earth, corner, sight, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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, earth, that), 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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 earth	det
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 lid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lid	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lid	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 coffin	punct
10	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watched	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watched	cc
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watched	obj
15	till	till	ADP	_	18 corner	case
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 corner	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 corner	det
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watched	obl
19	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 corner	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 sight	case
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remained	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 disappeared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 disappeared	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 disappeared	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 disappeared	nsubj
27	also	also	ADV	_	28 disappeared	advmod
28	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	son				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fall	present	the earth		the coffin lid		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lid=Location
3	watch	past	son not said here	earth		till a corner	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	remain	participle		a corner not said here	sight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
5	disappear	past	that		last		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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