Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 1

"Whenever a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with him over all the places which the child had loved during his life.

Who acts: good child, angel · What happens: die, come down, take, spread out, love · To what, where: flies, heaven, dead child, arms, great white wings, child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good child, angel), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
2	Whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	6 dies	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dies	nsubj
6	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 comes	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dies	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 angel	det
9	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 God	case
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 angel	nmod
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 heaven	case
15	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 comes	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 arms	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arms	nmod:poss
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 takes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spreads	punct
25	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 takes	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 spreads	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wings	nmod:poss
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wings	amod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wings	amod
30	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spreads	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flies	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flies	cc
33	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 comes	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flies	nmod
36	over	over	ADP	_	39 places	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 places	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 places	det
39	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 flies	nmod
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 loved	obj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 child	det
42	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 loved	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 loved	aux
44	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 places	acl:relcl
45	during	during	ADP	_	47 life	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 life	nmod:poss
47	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 loved	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present	a good child					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come down in a quote	present	a angel of God	flies with child over all places	heaven		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location
3	take in a quote	present	a angel of God not said here	the dead child	child's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location
4	spread out in a quote	present	a angel of God not said here	child's great white wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
5	love in a quote	past · perfect · passive		the child		during child's life		tree rules

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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