Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 16
There passed through the forest a poor innocent girl; her heart was pure, and her understanding increased by her faith.
Who acts: heart, girl · What happens: pass, be, increase, understand · To what, where: poor innocent girl, forest, understanding
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, girl), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 passed | expl |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 8 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pure | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pure | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pure | cop |
| 14 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 understanding | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 understanding | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 understanding | nmod:poss |
| 18 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 19 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 understanding | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 faith | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 faith | nmod:poss |
| 22 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 increased | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a poor innocent girl | the forest; there | girl's understanding obl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | girl's heart | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | increase | participle | girl's understanding not said here | by girl's faith | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | understand | girl | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=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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