Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 175
In the church was the light and the brightness of God--in the monk's cell he should find the rest through which the tree of human life might grow on into eternity.
Who acts: soil, tree · What happens: be, find, grow · To what, where: light, church, rest
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 (soil, tree), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 church | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 church | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 light | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brightness | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brightness | det |
| 9 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brightness | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 cell | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cell | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monk | det |
| 15 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cell | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 monk | case |
| 17 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cell | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 grow | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grow | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 life | amod |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tree | nmod |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 grow | aux |
| 31 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rest | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 eternity | case |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 eternity | case |
| 34 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grow | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the light and the brightness of God and the monk's cell | the church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | should | soil | the rest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grow | might | the tree of human life | the rest | on eternity | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location |
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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