Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 210
"Then," said the angel, "thy brother, he who has been looked upon as the meanest of you all, he whose honest deeds to thee appeared so humble,--it is he who has sent you this heavenly gift.
Who acts: angel, mercy, thee · What happens: say, look, deed, appear, be · To what, where: mercy, fountain, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (angel, mercy, thee), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angel | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 looked | aux:pass |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 meanest | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 meanest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meanest | det |
| 21 | meanest | mean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 meanest | obl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 deeds | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 deeds | nsubj |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 28 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deeds | amod |
| 29 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 appeared | mark |
| 31 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 appeared | nsubj |
| 32 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 deeds | advcl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 humble | advmod |
| 34 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 appeared | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 sent | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 sent | cop |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sent | nsubj |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 sent | nsubj |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 sent | aux |
| 42 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 sent | iobj |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 gift | det |
| 45 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 gift | amod |
| 46 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the angel and thy brother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present · perfect · passive | mercy | upon the meanest | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | deed in a quote | mercy | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | appear in a quote | past | thee | humble property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present · perfect · passive | fountain | you | send 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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