Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 61

The sphinx in this sarcophagus might unveil its own mystery in the words which the living had himself written two days before--

Who acts: sphinx · What happens: unveil, write · To what, where: own mystery, words

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sphinx), 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 sphinx	det
2	sphinx	sphinx	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unveil	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sarcophagus	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sarcophagus	det
5	sarcophagus	sarcophagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sphinx	nmod
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 unveil	aux
7	unveil	unveil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mystery	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mystery	amod
10	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unveil	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 words	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 words	det
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 written	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 living	det
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 written	aux
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 had	obj
19	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 unveil	advcl
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 written	obl:unmarked
22	before	before	ADV	_	19 written	advmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 unveil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unveil	might	the sphinx in this sarcophagus	sphinx's own mystery					tree rules
2	write	past · perfect	the sphinx in this sarcophagus not said here			the words	day	before property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=Destination

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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