Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 48
The next heart was also a sanctuary, which he felt almost unworthy to enter; it represented a mean garret, in which lay a sick mother; but the warm sunshine streamed through the window, lovely roses bloomed in a little flowerbox on the roof, two blue birds sang of childlike joys, and the sick mother prayed for a blessing on her daughter.
Who acts: next heart, sanctuary, two blue birds, sick mother · What happens: be, feel, enter, represent, lie, stream · To what, where: sanctuary, mean garret, sick mother, warm sunshine, window, little flowerbox
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next heart, sanctuary, two blue birds, sick mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sanctuary | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sanctuary | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 sanctuary | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sanctuary | det |
| 7 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sanctuary | parataxis |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 unworthy | advmod |
| 13 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 enter | mark |
| 15 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unworthy | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 represented | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 represented | nsubj |
| 18 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 garret | det |
| 20 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 garret | amod |
| 21 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 represented | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lay | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 represented | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mother | det |
| 27 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mother | amod |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 bloomed | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 bloomed | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sunshine | det |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sunshine | amod |
| 33 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bloomed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 sunshine | acl |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 window | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 window | det |
| 37 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 streamed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 roses | punct |
| 39 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 roses | amod |
| 40 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 bloomed | nsubj |
| 41 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sanctuary | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 flowerbox | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 flowerbox | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 flowerbox | amod |
| 45 | flowerbox | flowerbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bloomed | obl |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 roof | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 roof | det |
| 48 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 flowerbox | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 sang | punct |
| 50 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 birds | nummod |
| 51 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 birds | amod |
| 52 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 sang | nsubj |
| 53 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 bloomed | parataxis |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 joys | case |
| 55 | childlike | childlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 joys | amod |
| 56 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 sang | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 prayed | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 prayed | cc |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 mother | det |
| 60 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 mother | amod |
| 61 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 prayed | nsubj |
| 62 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 sang | conj |
| 63 | for | for | ADP | _ | 65 blessing | case |
| 64 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 65 blessing | det |
| 65 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 prayed | obl |
| 66 | on | on | ADP | _ | 68 daughter | case |
| 67 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 68 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 68 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 prayed | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sanctuary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the next heart | a sanctuary | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | a sanctuary | unworthy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enter | to-infinitive | a sanctuary not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | represent | past | sanctuary | a mean garret | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot garret=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | a sick mother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stream | participle | the warm sunshine not said here | the window | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||||
| 7 | bloom | participle · passive | the warm sunshine | a little flowerbox on the roof | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sing speech: express | past | two blue birds | of childlike joys | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 9 | pray | past | the sick mother | for a blessing; on mother's daughter | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for blessing=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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