Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 38
Then the Almighty pressed all the flowers to His heart; but He kissed the withered field-flower, and it received a voice.
Who acts: Almighty, heart · What happens: press, kiss, wither, receive · To what, where: flowers, withered field flower, voice
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, heart), 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 pressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Almighty | det |
| 3 | Almighty | almighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 flowers | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pressed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pressed | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flower | det |
| 16 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 flower | amod |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flower | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 field | punct |
| 19 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kissed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 received | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 received | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 received | nsubj |
| 23 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kissed | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 received | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | the Almighty | all flowers | then | to Almighty's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||
| 2 | kiss | past | Almighty | the withered field flower | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | receive | past | heart | a voice | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
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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