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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 13

"'Why, an angel from heaven brings them under his cloak, but no man can see him; and that's why we never know when he brings them.'

Who acts: angel, man, that, we · What happens: bring, see, be, not know · To what, where: babies, cloak, angel

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, man, that, we), 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

punctpunctadvmodpunctdetnsubjcasenmodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccdetnsubjauxconjobjpunctccnsubjcopconjnsubjadvmodadvcl:relclmarknsubjccompobjpunctpunctroot"PUNCT'PUNCTWhyADV,PUNCTanDETangelNOUNfromADPheavenNOUNbringsVERBthemPRONunderADPhisPRONcloakNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJnoDETmanNOUNcanAUXseeVERBhimPRON;PUNCTandCCONJthatPRON'sAUXwhyADVwePRONneverADVknowVERBwhenSCONJhePRONbringsVERBthemPRON.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_9 bringspunct
2''PUNCT_9 bringspunct
3WhywhyADVPronType=Int9 bringsadvmod
4,,PUNCT_6 angelpunct
5anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 angeldet
6angelangelNOUNNumber=Sing9 bringsnsubj
7fromfromADP_8 heavencase
8heavenheavenNOUNNumber=Sing6 angelnmod
9bringsbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
10themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 bringsobj
11underunderADP_13 cloakcase
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 cloaknmod:poss
13cloakcloakNOUNNumber=Sing9 bringsobl
14,,PUNCT_19 seepunct
15butbutCCONJ_19 seecc
16nonoDETPronType=Neg17 mandet
17manmanNOUNNumber=Sing19 seensubj
18cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin19 seeaux
19seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf9 bringsconj
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 seeobj
21;;PUNCT_25 whypunct
22andandCCONJ_25 whycc
23thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 whynsubj
24'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 whycop
25whywhyADVPronType=Int9 bringsconj
26wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs28 knownsubj
27neverneverADVPronType=Neg28 knowadvmod
28knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 whyadvcl:relcl
29whenwhenSCONJ_31 bringsmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 bringsnsubj
31bringsbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 knowccomp
32themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs31 bringsobj
33..PUNCT_9 bringspunct
34''PUNCT_9 bringspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bring in a quotepresenta angel from heavenbabies = babyangel's cloakvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2see in a quotecanno manangelvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3is in a quotepresentthatwhy propertytree rules
4not know in a quotepresentwevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5bring in a quotepresentmanbabies = babyvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

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