Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 79

It seemed impossible that the gates of mercy could ever be opened to her; but while she acknowledged this in deep penitence, a beam of radiant light shot suddenly into the depths upon her.

Who acts: It, sin · What happens: seem, open, acknowledge, shoot, beam · To what, where: gates, sin, this, deep penitence, depths, radiant light

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 (It, sin), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 opened	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gates	det
6	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opened	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mercy	case
8	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gates	nmod
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 opened	aux
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 opened	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 opened	aux:pass
12	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 impossible	csubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opened	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 shot	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 shot	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 acknowledged	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 acknowledged	nsubj
19	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 shot	advcl
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 acknowledged	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 penitence	case
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 penitence	amod
23	penitence	penitence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 acknowledged	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 beam	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 beam	det
26	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 penitence	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 light	case
28	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 light	amod
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beam	nmod
30	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	30 shot	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 depths	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 depths	det
34	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shot	obl
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shot	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It					impossible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	open	could · passive		the gates of mercy	sin		ever		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to she=Recipient
3	acknowledge	past	sin	this		deep penitence			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic
4	shoot	past				the depths		upon sin; suddenly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into depth=Destination
5	beam			radiant light					nom beam «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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