--- title: Strange men came in and placed the lid of the coffin over the dead,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Strange men came in and placed the lid of the coffin over the dead, and drove the nails firmly in; while the blows of the hammer resounded through the house, and echoed in the hearts that were bleeding. Who acts: Strange men, hearts, hammer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/) / 36 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 36 Strange men came in and placed the lid of the coffin over the dead, and drove the nails firmly in; while the blows of the hammer resounded through the house, and echoed in the hearts that were bleeding. **Who acts:** Strange men, hearts, hammer · **What happens:** come in, place, drive, resound, echo, bleed · **To what, where:** blows, lid, dead, nails, hammer, house This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strange men, hearts, hammer), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:70:36 # text = Strange men came in and placed the lid of the coffin over the dead, and drove the nails firmly in; while the blows of the hammer resounded through the house, and echoed in the hearts that were bleeding. 1 Strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 blows blow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 resounded resound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 echoed echo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 bleeding bleed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come in** | past | Strange men | the blows of the hammer | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **place** | past | Strange men *not said here* | the lid of the coffin | | the dead | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme over dead=Destination | | 3 | **drive** | past | Strange men *not said here* | the nails | | | | firmly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme nail=Trajectory | | 4 | **resound** | participle | | the hammer *not said here* | | the house | | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Location | | 5 | **echo** | past | Strange men *not said here* | | | the hearts | | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | | 6 | **bleed** | past · progressive | the hearts | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 7 | **blow** | | the hammer | | | | | | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/37/) - ↑ back to [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/)