Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 45
His faith had grown strong in the poor fisherman's cottage; the light which had never shone into his father's mind, in all the richness and sunshine of Spain, was sent to him to be his comfort in poverty and distress, a sign of that mercy of God which never fails.
Who acts: faith, God, father · What happens: grow, not shine, send, be, not fail, mind · To what, where: cottage, light, mind, Jurgen, comfort, poverty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faith, God, father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 faith | nmod:poss |
| 2 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fisherman | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fisherman | amod |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 fisherman | case |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 sent | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shone | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 shone | advmod |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 light | acl:relcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 richness | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 richness | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 richness | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 richness | det |
| 28 | richness | richness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shone | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sunshine | cc |
| 30 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 richness | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Spain | case |
| 32 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sunshine | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 light | punct |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sent | aux:pass |
| 35 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grown | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sent | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 comfort | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 comfort | cop |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 41 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sent | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 poverty | case |
| 43 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 comfort | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 distress | cc |
| 45 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 poverty | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 sign | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 sign | det |
| 48 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 comfort | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 mercy | case |
| 50 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 mercy | det |
| 51 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sign | nmod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 God | case |
| 53 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 mercy | nmod |
| 54 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 fails | nsubj |
| 55 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 56 fails | advmod |
| 56 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 God | acl:relcl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Jurgen's faith | the poor fisherman's cottage | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location | |||
| 2 | not shine | past · perfect · passive | the light | Jurgen's father's mind | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | the light | Jurgen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | Jurgen's comfort and a sign of that mercy of God | poverty and distress | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not fail | present | God | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mind | Jurgen's father | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sign | that mercy of God | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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