Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 26

He wished to make a picture of that which was within him, stirring upward from his heart to the realms of the Infinite; but how, and in what form?

Who acts: Fornarina, that · What happens: wish, make, be, stir · To what, where: form, picture, heart

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 (Fornarina, that), 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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 picture	det
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 him	nsubj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
11	within	within	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 picture	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stirring	punct
14	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 make	advcl
15	upward	upward	ADV	_	14 stirring	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 heart	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heart	nmod:poss
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stirring	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 realms	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 realms	det
21	realms	realm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heart	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Infinite	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Infinite	det
24	Infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 realms	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 how	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 how	cc
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 wished	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 form	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 form	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 form	case
31	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	32 form	det
32	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Fornarina		what form		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fornarina not said here	a picture			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product
3	is	past	that			of Fornarina	tree rules
4	stir	gerund	Fornarina not said here		Fornarina's heart to the realms of the Infinite	upward property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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