Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 32

His thoughts were on, as he supposed, a very distant time--of making his will, and of his burial, and of when it might all come to pass.

Who acts: thoughts, burial, play · What happens: be, suppose, make, come, pass, think

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 (thoughts, burial, play), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 thoughts	nmod:poss
2	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 supposed	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 on	cop
4	on	on	ADV	_	2 thoughts	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 supposed	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 supposed	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 supposed	nsubj
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 distant	advmod
12	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supposed	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 making	mark
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 supposed	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 will	nmod:poss
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 making	aux
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 burial	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 burial	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 burial	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 burial	nmod:poss
23	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supposed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 come	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 supposed	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 pass	mark
33	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			on property	tree rules
2	suppose	past	play's thoughts	time	of play's burial	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	future	play's thoughts not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	come	might	burial		all property	tree rules
5	pass	to-infinitive	burial not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think		play			nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
7	bury		play			nom burial «event 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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