Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 26
From the letter they read aloud the words of Holy Writ: "In the uttermost parts of the sea, Thy right hand shall uphold me."
Who acts: regions, uttermost parts · What happens: read, uphold, word · To what, where: words, natives, letter, Holy Writ
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 (regions, uttermost parts), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 letter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 uphold | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 letter | acl:relcl |
| 6 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 5 read | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Writ | case |
| 10 | Holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Writ | amod |
| 11 | Writ | writ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 parts | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 parts | punct |
| 14 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 parts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 parts | det |
| 16 | uttermost | uttermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 parts | amod |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 uphold | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 uphold | punct |
| 22 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hand | amod |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 uphold | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 uphold | aux |
| 26 | uphold | uphold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 uphold | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 uphold | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 uphold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | regions = region | the words of Holy Writ | aloud property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | uphold in a quote | shall | the uttermost parts of the sea | natives = native | the letter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | word | Holy Writ | nom word «communication 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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