Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 59

Their evil intentions were to throw the poor dead body outside the church door, and not leave him to rest in his coffin.

Who acts: evil intentions, persons · What happens: throw, not leave, rest, intend · To what, where: poor dead body, church door, man, coffin

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 (evil intentions, persons), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 intentions	nmod:poss
2	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 intentions	amod
3	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 throw	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 throw	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 throw	mark
6	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj
11	outside	outside	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	compound
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 body	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leave	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 leave	advmod
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 throw	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leave	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 leave	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 coffin	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 coffin	nmod:poss
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rest	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	persons's evil intentions	the poor dead body	the church door	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent body=Theme outside door=Destination
2	not leave	infinitive		man		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	rest	to-infinitive			man's coffin	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coffin=Location
4	intend		persons = person			nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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