Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 19

The genius of the human race stood in the humble room, bent down over the bed and imprinted a kiss on the boy's forehead: "Be thou strong in fame and strong in the battle of life!

Who acts: genius, thou · What happens: stand, bend down, imprint, be, battle · To what, where: humble room, bed, kiss, forehead, fame, battle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (genius, thou), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 genius	det
2	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 race	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 race	amod
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 genius	nmod
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bent	punct
13	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 room	acl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 bent	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bent	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 imprinted	cc
19	imprinted	imprint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kiss	det
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 imprinted	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 forehead	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forehead	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 boy	case
26	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 imprinted	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
29	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 strong	cop
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 strong	nsubj
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stood	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 fame	case
33	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strong	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 strong	cc
35	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 strong	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 battle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 battle	det
38	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 strong	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 life	case
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 battle	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the genius of the human race		the humble room		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bend down	participle		the humble room not said here	the bed	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bed=Location
3	imprint	past	the genius of the human race not said here	a kiss	the boy's forehead		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on forehead=Destination
4	is in a quote	infinitive	thou		fame	strong property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		thou not said here		the battle of life		tree rules
6	battle in a quote			life			nom battle «act 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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