Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 12
God knows what was in his mind; but he requested us to put the book into his coffin, and now he lies there.
Who acts: God, student · What happens: know, request, put, lie, mind · To what, where: us, book, coffin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, student), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 knows | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 requested | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 requested | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 requested | nsubj |
| 11 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 requested | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 requested | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 book | det |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 coffin | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lies | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lies | cc |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lies | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lies | nsubj |
| 24 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | conj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lies | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | request | past | student | us | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | student not said here | the book | student's coffin | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent book=Goal | |||
| 4 | lie | present | student | there | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | mind | student | nom mind «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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