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title: A grave! dig me a grave!" sounded again in her ears, and she would h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A grave! dig me a grave!" sounded again in her ears, and she would have gladly buried herself, if in the grave she could have found forgetfulness of her actions. Who acts: grave, Anne. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 143

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A grave! dig me a grave!" sounded again in her ears, and she would have gladly buried herself, if in the grave she could have found forgetfulness of her actions.

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**Who acts:** grave, Anne · **What happens:** dig, sound, bury, find, act · **To what, where:** me, ears, Anne, forgetfulness, grave

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave, Anne), 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:pg27200:5:143
# text = A grave! dig me a grave!" sounded again in her ears, and she would have gladly buried herself, if in the grave she could have found forgetfulness of her actions.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
32	forgetfulness	forgetfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | infinitive | a grave *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result |
| 2 | **sound** *in a quote* | past | a grave |  |  | Anne's ears | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 3 | **bury** *in a quote* | would · perfect · passive |  | Anne |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme herself=Destination |
| 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could · perfect | Anne | forgetfulness of Anne's actions |  | the grave |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgetfulness=Topic |
| 5 | **act** *in a quote* |  | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: 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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