Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 187

The hymn-book, in which the rose still lay, was placed under her head, for so she had wished it; and then they buried grandmother.

Who acts: rose, book, eyes · What happens: lie, place, wish, bury · To what, where: hymn book, head, rose, grandmother

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose, book, eyes), 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	4 book	det
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 book	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hymn	punct
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lay	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rose	det
9	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 book	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 book	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 placed	aux:pass
14	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wished	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 wished	mark
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 wished	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wished	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wished	aux
23	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 placed	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wished	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 buried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 buried	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 buried	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 buried	nsubj
29	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 placed	conj
30	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 buried	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past	the rose		the hymn book	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
2	place	past · passive		the hymn book	book's head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under head=Destination
3	wish	past · perfect	book	rose			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	bury	past	eyes = eye	grandmother		then	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=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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