Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 169

The convent Brother Ignatius visited him as a physician and a friend, and brought him words of comfort, of religion, and spoke to him of the peace and happiness of the church, of the sinfulness of man, of rest and mercy to be found in heaven.

Who acts: convent · What happens: visit, bring, speak, find, word · To what, where: Such, words, heaven, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (convent), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 convent	det
2	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visited	nsubj
3	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 convent	appos
4	Ignatius	Ignatius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Brother	flat
5	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 visited	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 physician	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 physician	det
9	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visited	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 friend	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 physician	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brought	cc
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visited	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brought	obj
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brought	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 comfort	case
19	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 religion	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 religion	case
22	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spoke	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spoke	cc
25	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visited	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spoke	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 peace	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 peace	det
30	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoke	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 happiness	cc
32	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 peace	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 church	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 church	det
35	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 happiness	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sinfulness	punct
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 sinfulness	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sinfulness	det
39	sinfulness	sinfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoke	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 man	case
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sinfulness	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rest	punct
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 rest	case
44	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sinfulness	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 mercy	cc
46	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rest	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	49 found	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 found	aux:pass
49	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 rest	acl
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 heaven	case
51	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 found	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	past	the convent	Such			as a physician and a friend	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	bring	past	the convent not said here	words of comfort	Such			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination word=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	the convent not said here		Such		of the peace and happiness of the church; of the sinfulness of man and rest and mercy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
4	find	to-infinitive · passive	the convent not said here			heaven		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
5	word			comfort				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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