Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 61

He told them that God, when He made man out of the dust of the earth, touched His work five times, leaving five intense feelings, which we call the five senses.

Who acts: father, we · What happens: tell, make, touch, leave, call, work · To what, where: God, man, dust, work, five intense feelings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 God	mark
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 made	advmod
8	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 God	acl:relcl
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 dust	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 dust	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dust	det
14	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dust	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 touched	punct
19	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
20	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 work	nmod:poss
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touched	obj
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 times	nummod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 touched	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaving	punct
25	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 touched	advcl
26	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 feelings	nummod
27	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feelings	amod
28	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaving	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 call	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 call	obj
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 call	nsubj
32	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 feelings	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 senses	det
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 senses	nummod
35	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 call	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	father		God			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient god=Topic
2	make	past	father	man		the dust of the earth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product
3	touch	past		father's work			time	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Co-Theme
4	leave	gerund		five intense feelings				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme
5	call	present	we	five intense feelings				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme sens=Result
6	work		father					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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.

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