Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 24

That very morning the letter had arrived from the cold regions of the north; there, where the absent one was sweetly sleeping under the protecting hand of God.

Who acts: letter, absent one · What happens: arrive, sleep, protect · To what, where: cold regions, protecting hand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, absent one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14055): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 morning	det
2	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 arrived	aux
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 regions	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 regions	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 regions	amod
11	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arrived	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 regions	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 arrived	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sleeping	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 sleeping	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sleeping	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sleeping	aux
23	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	24 sleeping	advmod
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 there	advcl:relcl
25	under	under	ADP	_	28 hand	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hand	det
27	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 hand	amod
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sleeping	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 God	case
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hand	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past · perfect	the letter	the cold regions of the north; there	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from region=Initial_Location
2	sleep	past · progressive	the absent one	the protecting hand of God		sweetly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	protect	gerund					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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