Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 36
Then the child opened his eyes and looked into the glorious happy face of the angel, and at the same moment they found themselves in that heavenly home where all is happiness and joy.
Who acts: child, eyes · What happens: open, look, find, be · To what, where: eyes, heavenly home, happiness
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 (child, eyes), 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 | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 11 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 angel | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 angel | det |
| 16 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moment | amod |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 home | det |
| 28 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 home | amod |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 home | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 happiness | det |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 happiness | cop |
| 33 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 where | appos |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 joy | cc |
| 35 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 happiness | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the child | child's eyes | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | the child not said here | into the glorious happy face of the angel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | eyes = eye | eyes = eye | that heavenly home | moment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||
| 4 | is a | present | all happiness and joy | 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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