Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 20
It streamed in upon his soul and overpowered him: the church and the faith of his parents surrounded him, and touched a chord in his heart that caused his eyes to overflow with tears.
Who acts: magnificence, parents, heart, eyes · What happens: stream, overpower, surround, touch, cause, overflow · To what, where: soul, boy, chord, heart, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificence, parents, heart, eyes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 streamed | nsubj |
| 2 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 soul | case |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 soul | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 soul | nmod:poss |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 streamed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 overpowered | cc |
| 8 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 streamed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overpowered | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 church | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overpowered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 faith | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 faith | det |
| 15 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 church | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 parents | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 faith | nmod |
| 19 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 parents | acl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 surrounded | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 touched | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 touched | cc |
| 23 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 streamed | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chord | det |
| 25 | chord | chord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 touched | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 touched | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 caused | nsubj |
| 30 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heart | acl:relcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 caused | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 overflow | mark |
| 34 | overflow | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 caused | xcomp |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 tears | case |
| 36 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 overflow | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 streamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | past | magnificence | boy's soul | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soul=Location | ||||
| 2 | overpower | past | magnificence not said here | boy | the church and the faith of boy's parents obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | surround | participle | boy's parents not said here | boy | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | touch | past | a chord | boy's heart | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chord=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | cause | past | boy's heart | boy's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | overflow | to-infinitive | boy's eyes not said here | with tears | tree rules |
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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