--- title: "Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespear… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: "Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly. Who acts: dust. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/) / 15 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 15 "Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly. **Who acts:** dust · **What happens:** shuffle off, mean, die, come, use · **To what, where:** mortal coil, Hamlet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:15 # text = "Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Shuffled shuffle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 nsubj _ _ 3 off off ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 5 mortal mortal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 coil coil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 Shakespeare Shakespeare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 Hamlet hamlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 20 jokingly jokingly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shuffle off** *in a quote* | participle | | this mortal coil | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **come** | present | dust | | | Shakespeare's Hamlet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hamlet=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **use** | present · passive | dust *not said here* | | | | | jokingly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:15`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/)