Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 25
He folded her hands and read a psalm over the dead woman.
Who acts: pastor · What happens: fold, read · To what, where: hands, psalm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 folded | nsubj |
| 2 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 folded | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 read | cc |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 folded | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 psalm | det |
| 8 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | pastor | soul's hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | pastor not said here | a psalm | over the dead woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic |
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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