Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 209

It is an act of mercy; he is wanting it now; and here is the very fountain of mercy."

Who acts: stone, mercy, fountain · What happens: be, want · To what, where: act, stone

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone, mercy, fountain), 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	4 act	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 act	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 act	det
4	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 act	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 wanting	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanting	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wanting	aux
10	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 act	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanting	obj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 wanting	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 here	cc
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 act	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 here	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fountain	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 fountain	advmod
19	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 here	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 mercy	case
21	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fountain	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 act	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 act	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	stone	a act		of mercy	tree rules
2	want	present · progressive	mercy	stone	now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is	present	the fountain of mercy			here property	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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