Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 90
The pastor felt a kiss on his lips; a gleam of light surrounded him--God's bright sun shone into the room, and his wife, alive, sweet and full of love, awoke him from a dream which God had sent him!
Who acts: pastor, bright sun, wife · What happens: feel, surround, shine, awake, send · To what, where: kiss, lips, gleam, bright sun, room, pastor
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, bright sun, wife), 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 pastor | det |
| 2 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kiss | det |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 lips | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lips | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 felt | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 surrounded | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gleam | det |
| 11 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gleam | nmod |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 surrounded | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 sun | punct |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sun | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 God | case |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sun | amod |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 21 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sun | acl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shone | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 awoke | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 awoke | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 awoke | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 alive | punct |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wife | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sweet | punct |
| 32 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 alive | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 full | cc |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 alive | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 love | case |
| 36 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 full | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wife | punct |
| 38 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 awoke | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 dream | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 dream | det |
| 42 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 awoke | obl |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 sent | aux |
| 46 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 dream | acl:relcl |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sent | obj |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the pastor | a kiss | pastor's lips | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on lip=Location | |||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | God's bright sun | a gleam of light | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | participle | God's bright sun not said here | the room | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | awake | past | God's wife | pastor | a dream | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 5 | send | past · perfect · passive | a dream | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme |
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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