Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 81

An angel of justice read their crimes and their defence; the latter was not a brilliant one, but it was read before God, Who reads the heart, Who knows everything, the wickedness that comes from within and from without, Who is mercy and love personified.

Who acts: angel, latter, brilliant one, heart, wickedness, hands · What happens: read, not be, know, come, be, personify · To what, where: crimes, brilliant one, angel, heart, everything, mercy

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 (angel, latter, brilliant one, heart), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 justice	case
4	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 angel	nmod
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crimes	nmod:poss
7	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 defence	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 defence	nmod:poss
10	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crimes	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 latter	det
13	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 one	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 read	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 read	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 read	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 read	aux:pass
23	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 one	acl:relcl
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 God	case
25	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 read	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reads	punct
27	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 reads	nsubj
28	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heart	det
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reads	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knows	punct
32	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 knows	nsubj
33	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 heart	acl:relcl
34	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 knows	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wickedness	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wickedness	det
37	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 personified	nsubj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 comes	nsubj
39	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 wickedness	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	39 comes	obl
41	within	within	ADP	_	39 comes	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 from	cc
43	from	from	ADP	_	41 within	conj
44	without	without	ADP	_	41 within	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 mercy	punct
46	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 mercy	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 mercy	cop
48	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 personified	nsubj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 love	cc
50	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 mercy	conj
51	personified	personify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heart	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	read	present	a angel of justice	hands's crimes and hands's defence		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Topic
2	not is a	past	the latter	a brilliant one		tree rules
3	read	past · passive	a brilliant one not said here	angel	before God	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	read	present	a brilliant one	the heart		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic
5	know	present	the heart	everything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
6	come	present	the wickedness			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	present		mercy and love		tree rules
8	personify	past	the wickedness			tree rules
9	incriminate		hands = hand			nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent
10	defend		hands = hand			nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent

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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