Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 12

Its parents kissed it lovingly, and the father wrote these words in the Bible, "On the tenth of November, 1759, God sent us a son."

Who acts: parents, father, God · What happens: kiss, write, send · To what, where: sound, words, Bible, son, us

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, father, God), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	obj
5	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	_	3 kissed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrote	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrote	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrote	nsubj
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	parataxis
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 words	det
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrote	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Bible	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bible	det
15	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tenth	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 tenth	punct
18	On	on	ADP	_	20 tenth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tenth	det
20	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 November	case
22	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tenth	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 1759	punct
24	1759	1759	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 wrote	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
26	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sent	nsubj
27	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrote	conj
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 son	det
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	sound's parents	sound			lovingly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	write	past	the father	this words		the Bible	1759 obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in bible=Destination
3	send in a quote	past	God	a son	us			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination son=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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