Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 179
Heaven seemed to him to dwell in the sunshine of the church, and to beam upon him from the holy pictures and from the cross.
Who acts: Heaven · What happens: seem, dwell, beam · To what, where: Brother, sunshine, holy pictures
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 (Heaven), 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 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dwell | mark |
| 6 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sunshine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunshine | det |
| 9 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sunshine | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beam | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beam | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 beam | mark |
| 16 | beam | beam | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beam | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 pictures | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pictures | det |
| 21 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pictures | amod |
| 22 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beam | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cross | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 cross | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cross | det |
| 26 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pictures | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Heaven | Brother | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | dwell | to-infinitive | Heaven not said here | the sunshine of the church | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location | ||||
| 3 | beam | to-infinitive | the holy pictures and the cross | upon Brother | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=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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