Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 144

"Well, I would gladly be killed," he reasoned; "for then I shall die, and go to heaven:" and so he went home, almost hoping for death.

Who acts: boy · What happens: kill, reason, die, go, hope · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 killed	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 killed	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 killed	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	aux
6	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	8 killed	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 killed	aux:pass
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reasoned	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 reasoned	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reasoned	nsubj
12	reasoned	reason	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 die	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 die	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 then	case
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 die	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 die	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 die	aux
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 killed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 die	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 heaven	case
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 go	parataxis
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hoping	punct
33	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 hoping	advmod
34	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 went	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hoping	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	would · passive		boy	gladly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reason	past	boy			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	die in a quote	shall	boy			vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for then=Theme
4	go in a quote	infinitive	boy not said here		to heaven	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	past	boy		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hope	gerund	boy not said here		for death; almost property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for death=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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