Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 57

"I can fly now, mother," said the child; "I can fly with other happy children into the presence of the Almighty.

Who acts: child · What happens: fly, say · To what, where: mother, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fly	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fly	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 fly	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fly	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 children	case
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fly	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 presence	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 presence	det
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fly	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Almighty	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Almighty	det
27	Almighty	almighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 presence	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	can	the child = child	mother	now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly in a quote	can	the child = child			into the presence of the Almighty result; with other happy children	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into presence=Result

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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