Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 39
Then it joined in the song of the angels, who surrounded the throne, some near, and others in a distant circle, but all equally happy.
Who acts: heart, angels · What happens: join, surround, sing · To what, where: others, angels
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 (heart, angels), 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 | 3 joined | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 song | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 angels | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 angels | det |
| 9 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 song | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surrounded | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 angels | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 throne | det |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounded | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 near | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 near | nsubj |
| 17 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 joined | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 others | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 others | cc |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 joined | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 circle | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 circle | det |
| 23 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 circle | amod |
| 24 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 others | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 happy | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 happy | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 happy | nsubj |
| 28 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 29 happy | advmod |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joined | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | heart | others in a distant circle | then | in the song of the angels; near property | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in song=Theme | ||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | the angels | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing | the angels | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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