Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 143

A grave! dig me a grave!" sounded again in her ears, and she would have gladly buried herself, if in the grave she could have found forgetfulness of her actions.

Who acts: grave, Anne · What happens: dig, sound, bury, find, act · To what, where: me, ears, Anne, forgetfulness, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave, Anne), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounded	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grave	acl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dig	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
10	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 sounded	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ears	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sounded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 buried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 buried	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 buried	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 buried	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 buried	aux
20	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	21 buried	advmod
21	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sounded	parataxis
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 buried	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 grave	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grave	det
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 buried	conj
32	forgetfulness	forgetfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 actions	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 actions	nmod:poss
35	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 forgetfulness	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	infinitive	a grave not said here		me				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result
2	sound in a quote	past	a grave			Anne's ears	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
3	bury in a quote	would · perfect · passive		Anne				gladly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme herself=Destination
4	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could · perfect	Anne	forgetfulness of Anne's actions		the grave			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgetfulness=Topic
5	act in a quote		Anne						nom action «act intransitive»: 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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