Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 29
So he made up his mind to remember one of them in his will, as the one to be buried with him in the family vault, whenever that event should happen.
Who acts: play, event · What happens: make up, remember, bury, happen, mind · To what, where: mind, one, family vault
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, event), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 remember | mark |
| 8 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 remember | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 will | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 will | nmod:poss |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remember | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 buried | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 buried | aux:pass |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 one | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 buried | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 vault | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vault | det |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vault | compound |
| 27 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buried | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 happen | punct |
| 29 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 happen | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 event | det |
| 31 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 happen | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 happen | aux |
| 33 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 vault | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | play | play's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | play not said here | one of wires | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bury | to-infinitive · passive | play not said here | the family vault | with play | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in vault=Destination | |||
| 4 | happen | should | that event | whenever property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | play | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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