Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 71
And he knelt down and breathed a prayer of thankfulnesss to Heaven, and then he forgot Heaven for her sake--for the sake of her picture in stone--for her Psyche which stood there as if formed of snow, blushing in the morning dawn.
Who acts: Providence, Psyche, thankfulnesss · What happens: kneel down, breathe, forget, stand, form, blush · To what, where: prayer, Heaven
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 (Providence, Psyche, thankfulnesss), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 knelt | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 knelt | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 breathed | cc |
| 6 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knelt | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prayer | det |
| 8 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breathed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thankfulnesss | case |
| 10 | thankfulnesss | thankfulnesss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prayer | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Heaven | case |
| 12 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 breathed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forgot | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 forgot | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knelt | conj |
| 18 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 sake | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sake | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 sake | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sake | det |
| 25 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 picture | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 picture | nmod:poss |
| 28 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sake | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 stone | case |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 picture | nmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 Psyche | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 Psyche | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Psyche | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Psyche | psyche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | parataxis |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 stood | nsubj |
| 36 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Psyche | acl:relcl |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 stood | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 formed | mark |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 formed | mark |
| 40 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 stood | advcl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 snow | case |
| 42 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 formed | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 blushing | punct |
| 44 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 formed | advcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 dawn | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 dawn | det |
| 47 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 dawn | compound |
| 48 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 blushing | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel down | past | Providence | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | breathe | past | Providence not said here | a prayer of thankfulnesss | Heaven | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | |||
| 3 | forget | past | Providence | Heaven | then | for Heaven's sake; for the sake of Heaven's picture in stone | tree rules | ||
| 4 | stand | past | Heaven's Psyche | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | form | participle | Heaven's Psyche not said here | of snow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | blush | gerund | Heaven's Psyche not said here | dawn | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | pray | thankfulnesss | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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