Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 89

Do you remember the dead man whom the bad people wished to throw out of his coffin?

Who acts: you, bad people · What happens: remember, wish, throw · To what, where: dead man, coffin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bad people), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obj
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wished	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wished	nsubj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 throw	mark
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 coffin	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 coffin	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 coffin	nmod:poss
17	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	remember	present · do-support	you	the dead man		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	wish	past	the bad people	the dead man		tree rules
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bad people not said here		man's coffin	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out coffin=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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