Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 68

Then he laid the dead body back in the coffin, folded the hands, and took leave of it; and went away contentedly through the great forest.

Who acts: man · What happens: lay, fold, take, go away · To what, where: dead body, coffin, hands, leave, great forest

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 (man), 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 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 coffin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coffin	det
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 folded	punct
12	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hands	det
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 folded	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
18	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leave	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
26	through	through	ADP	_	29 forest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 forest	amod
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	man	the dead body	the coffin	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in coffin=Destination
2	fold	past	man not said here	the hands				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	take	past	man not said here	leave of leave				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
4	go away	past	man not said here		the great forest		away, contentedly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location

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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