Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 55
Then he saw an open coffin standing in the centre of the church, which contained a dead man, waiting for burial.
Who acts: weather, open coffin, church · What happens: see, stand, contain, wait · To what, where: open coffin, centre, dead man
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 (weather, open coffin, church), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coffin | det |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coffin | amod |
| 6 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 coffin | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 centre | det |
| 10 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 centre | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 contained | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 contained | nsubj |
| 16 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 church | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 contained | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waiting | punct |
| 21 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 standing | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 burial | case |
| 23 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waiting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | weather | a open coffin | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coffin=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a open coffin not said here | the centre of the church | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | ||||
| 3 | contain | past | the church | a dead man | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | a open coffin not said here | for burial | vn exist-47.1 «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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