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title: Puggie had died in the morning, and was to be buried in this part of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Puggie had died in the morning, and was to be buried in this part of the yard; the grandchildren of the widow (that is, of the tanner's widow, for Puggie had never been married) filled up the grave, and it was a beautiful grave--it must have been quite pleasant to lie there. Who acts: Puggie, that, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 19

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Puggie had died in the morning, and was to be buried in this part of the yard; the grandchildren of the widow (that is, of the tanner's widow, for Puggie had never been married) filled up the grave, and it was a beautiful grave--it must have been quite pleasant to lie there.

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**Who acts:** Puggie, that, widow, it · **What happens:** die, bury, be, not marry, fill up, lie · **To what, where:** grandchildren, part, Puggie, grave, beautiful grave

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Puggie, that, widow, it), 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:pg27200:47:19
# text = Puggie had died in the morning, and was to be buried in this part of the yard; the grandchildren of the widow (that is, of the tanner's widow, for Puggie had never been married) filled up the grave, and it was a beautiful grave--it must have been quite pleasant to lie there.
1	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
42	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
55	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
56	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux	_	_
57	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	59	cop	_	_
58	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
62	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · perfect | Puggie | the grandchildren of the widow and the tanner's widow |  |  | morning |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **bury** | past · passive | Puggie *not said here* |  |  | this part of the yard |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in part=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | of the tanner's widow | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | Puggie |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **fill up** | participle | the tanner's widow *not said here* | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grave=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past | widow | a beautiful grave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | must · perfect | it |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **lie** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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