Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 14

When he read about Jacob dressing himself in sheep-skins to personify Esau, and so to usurp his brother's birthright, he would clench his little fist in anger against the deceiver; when he read of tyrants and of the injustice and wickedness of the world, tears would come into his eyes, and he was quite filled with the thought of the justice and truth which must and would triumph.

Who acts: truth, tears · What happens: read, dress, personify, usurp, clench, come · To what, where: truth, Esau, birthright, little fist, eyes, justice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, tears), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 read	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Jacob	case
5	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
6	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 read	advcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 dressing	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 sheep	case
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dressing	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 skins	punct
11	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sheep	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 personify	mark
13	personify	personify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dressing	advcl
14	Esau	Esau	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 personify	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 usurp	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 usurp	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 usurp	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 usurp	mark
19	usurp	usurp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 read	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 birthright	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 brother	case
23	birthright	birthright	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 usurp	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 clench	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 clench	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 clench	aux
27	clench	clench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 usurp	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fist	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fist	amod
30	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clench	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 anger	case
32	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clench	obl
33	against	against	ADP	_	35 deceiver	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 deceiver	det
35	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 anger	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 read	punct
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 read	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 read	nsubj
39	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 tyrants	case
41	tyrants	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 read	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 injustice	cc
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 injustice	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 injustice	det
45	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tyrants	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 wickedness	cc
47	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 injustice	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 world	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wickedness	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 come	punct
52	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 come	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 come	aux
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 read	conj
55	into	into	ADP	_	57 eyes	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 eyes	nmod:poss
57	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 come	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 filled	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 filled	cc
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 filled	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 filled	aux:pass
62	quite	quite	ADV	_	63 filled	advmod
63	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 read	conj
64	with	with	ADP	_	66 thought	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 thought	det
66	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 filled	obl
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 justice	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 justice	det
69	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 thought	nmod
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 truth	cc
71	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 justice	conj
72	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	73 must	nsubj
73	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 justice	acl:relcl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 triumph	cc
75	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	76 triumph	aux
76	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 filled	conj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	past	truth			about Jacob	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about jacob=Topic
2	dress	gerund	truth not said here	truth		in sheep and skins	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	personify	to-infinitive	truth not said here	Esau			tree rules
4	usurp	to-infinitive		truth's brother's birthright			tree rules
5	clench	would	truth	truth's little fist		in anger against the deceiver	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent fist=Patient in anger=Topic
6	read	past	truth			of tyrants and the injustice and wickedness of the world	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of tyrant=Topic
7	come	would	tears		truth's eyes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location
8	fill	past · passive		truth		with the thought of the justice and truth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with thought=Instrument
9	think			the justice and truth			nom thought «cognition 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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