Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 9

They had indeed only one step higher to mount on the ladder of happiness--they hoped that God would give them a child, a son like them in form and spirit.

Who acts: beings, God · What happens: have, mount, hope, give · To what, where: ladder, child, beings, form · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beings, God), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 step	nummod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 higher	obl:unmarked
7	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 mount	mark
9	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 higher	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ladder	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ladder	det
12	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mount	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 happiness	case
14	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ladder	nmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 hoped	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hoped	nsubj
17	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 give	mark
19	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 give	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hoped	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 child	appos
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 form	case
31	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 spirit	cc
33	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 form	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	beings = being				indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mount	to-infinitive	beings = being not said here			the ladder of happiness		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ladder=Destination
3	hope	past	beings = being					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	give	would	God	a child	beings = being	form and spirit		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient child=Theme

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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