Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 28

He watered it, and cherished it, and took care it should have the benefit of every sunbeam that found its way into the cellar, from the earliest morning ray to the evening sunset.

Who acts: boy, hand, sunbeam · What happens: water, cherish, take, care, have, find · To what, where: hand, benefit, way, cellar

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 (boy, hand, sunbeam), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watered	nsubj
2	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watered	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cherished	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cherished	cc
6	cherished	cherish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watered	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cherished	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watered	conj
11	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 took	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	csubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 benefit	det
16	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sunbeam	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sunbeam	det
19	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 benefit	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sunbeam	acl:relcl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 way	nmod:poss
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 cellar	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cellar	det
26	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ray	punct
28	from	from	ADP	_	32 ray	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ray	det
30	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 ray	amod
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ray	compound
32	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 sunset	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sunset	det
35	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sunset	compound
36	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ray	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	water	past	boy	hand			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
2	cherish	past	boy not said here	hand			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	take	past	boy not said here				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	care	present	boy not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	should	hand	the benefit of every sunbeam			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefit=Patient
6	find	past	every sunbeam	hand's way	the cellar	from the earliest morning ray to the evening sunset	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent way=Theme from ray=Source

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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