Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 89
And as she kissed him and her children, she said, "It came from God, through my child in the grave."
Who acts: mother, faith · What happens: kiss, say, come · To what, where: husband · 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 (mother, faith), 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 | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 children | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 him | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 child | punct |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 child | nmod:poss |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 grave | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grave | det |
| 24 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 child | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | mother | husband | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | faith | from God; through my child in the grave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from god=Initial_Location through child=Destination |
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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