Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 2

Then he gathers a large handful of flowers, which he carries up to the Almighty, that they may bloom more brightly in heaven than they do on earth.

Who acts: angel, flowers · What happens: gather, carry up, bloom, do · To what, where: large handful, Almighty, heaven, earth

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 (angel, flowers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gathers	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathers	nsubj
3	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handful	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handful	amod
6	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathers	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 handful	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carries	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 carries	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carries	nsubj
12	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flowers	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 carries	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Almighty	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Almighty	det
16	Almighty	almighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carries	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bloom	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 bloom	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bloom	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bloom	aux
21	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 carries	conj
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 brightly	advmod
23	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	21 bloom	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 heaven	case
25	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bloom	obl
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bloom	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 earth	case
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present	angel	a large handful of flowers		then		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
2	carry up	present	flowers		the Almighty			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to almighty=Destination
3	bloom	may	flowers = flower		heaven		brightly property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location
4	do	present	flowers = flower		earth			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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