Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 73

That child was now an old woman, whom God was taking to Himself.

Who acts: child, God · What happens: be, take · To what, where: old woman, God

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, God), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woman	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 woman	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 taking	obj
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 taking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taking	aux
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 woman	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Himself	case
14	Himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 taking	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that child	a old woman			now		tree rules
2	take	past · progressive	God	a old woman	God				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to himself=Destination

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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