Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 37
And God pressed the dead child to His heart, and wings were given him so that he could fly with the angel, hand in hand.
Who acts: God, child · What happens: press, give, fly · To what, where: dead child, wings, child, hand
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 (God, child), 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 | _ | 3 pressed | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pressed | nsubj |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pressed | 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 | 3 pressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pressed | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | iobj |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 fly | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fly | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fly | aux |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 given | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 angel | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 angel | det |
| 23 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hand | punct |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 angel | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | God | the dead child | to child's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent child=Result | |||
| 2 | give | past · passive | wings | child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | could | child | hand | with the angel and hand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
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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