Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 123

But this experience was intuitive--it was the poetry within him, a gift from Heaven bestowed on him in his cradle.

Who acts: experience, gift · What happens: be, bestow · To what, where: poetry, cradle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experience, gift), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 intuitive	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 experience	det
3	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 intuitive	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 intuitive	cop
5	intuitive	intuitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 poetry	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poetry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poetry	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poetry	det
10	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 intuitive	parataxis
11	within	within	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poetry	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bestowed	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gift	det
15	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bestowed	nsubj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Heaven	case
17	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gift	nmod
18	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 intuitive	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bestowed	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 cradle	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cradle	nmod:poss
23	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bestowed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 intuitive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this experience			intuitive property	tree rules
2	is a	past	experience	the poetry		within man	tree rules
3	bestow	past	a gift from Heaven		man's cradle	on man	tree rules

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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