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title: Their evil intentions were to throw the poor dead body outside the c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Their evil intentions were to throw the poor dead body outside the church door, and not leave him to rest in his coffin. Who acts: evil intentions, persons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 59

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Their evil intentions were to throw the poor dead body outside the church door, and not leave him to rest in his coffin.

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**Who acts:** evil intentions, persons · **What happens:** throw, not leave, rest, intend · **To what, where:** poor dead body, church door, man, coffin

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil intentions, persons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:196:59
# text = Their evil intentions were to throw the poor dead body outside the church door, and not leave him to rest in his coffin.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | persons's evil intentions | the poor dead body |  | the church door |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent body=Theme outside door=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | infinitive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | man's coffin |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coffin=Location |
| 4 | **intend** |  | persons *= person* |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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