Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 65
The bird's body was placed in a pretty red box; they wished to bury it with royal honours.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: place, wish, bury · To what, where: body, red box
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux:pass |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 10 red | advmod |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 box | amod |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bury | mark |
| 16 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wished | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bury | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 honours | case |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 honours | amod |
| 20 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bury | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the bird's body | a red box | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in box=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | flowers = flower | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bury not said to happen | to-infinitive | flowers = flower not said here | body | with royal honours | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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