Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 3
And the Almighty presses the flowers to His heart, but He kisses the flower that pleases Him best, and it receives a voice, and is able to join the song of the chorus of bliss."
Who acts: Almighty, flower, heart, chorus · What happens: press, kiss, please, receive, be, join · To what, where: flowers, flower, Almighty, voice, song, bliss
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 (Almighty, flower, heart, chorus), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 presses | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Almighty | det |
| 3 | Almighty | almighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presses | nsubj |
| 4 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flowers | det |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presses | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presses | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kisses | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 kisses | cc |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kisses | nsubj |
| 13 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 presses | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kisses | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pleases | nsubj |
| 17 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 flower | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleases | obj |
| 19 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 pleases | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 receives | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 receives | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 receives | nsubj |
| 23 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kisses | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receives | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 able | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 able | cc |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 able | cop |
| 29 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 presses | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 join | mark |
| 31 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 able | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 song | det |
| 33 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 join | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 chorus | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 chorus | det |
| 36 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 song | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bliss | case |
| 38 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 chorus | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presses | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 presses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | present | the Almighty | the flowers | to Almighty's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | kiss | present | Almighty | the flower | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | please | present | the flower | Almighty | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | receive | present | heart | a voice | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the Almighty not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | join | to-infinitive | the Almighty not said here | the song of the chorus of bliss | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient | ||||
| 7 | sing | the chorus of bliss | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | chorus | bliss | nom chorus «event 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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