Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 13
In a little while the lid will be placed upon the coffin, and he will have sweet rest in the grave!"
Who acts: student · What happens: place, have · To what, where: lid, coffin, sweet rest, grave
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | advcl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 placed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lid | det |
| 6 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 placed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 placed | aux:pass |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 little | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 coffin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coffin | det |
| 12 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rest | amod |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 grave | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grave | det |
| 22 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | future · passive | the lid | the coffin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon coffin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | future | student | sweet rest | the grave | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
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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