Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 18
From its pages she heard the voice of God speaking to her, and telling her to remember what was said of Joseph's brethren when persons wished to injure her. "
Who acts: girl, voice, persons, Bible · What happens: hear, speak, tell, remember, say, wish · To what, where: voice, pages, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, voice, persons, Bible), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 pages | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pages | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 God | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 voice | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 speaking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 telling | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 telling | cc |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 telling | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remember | mark |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 telling | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 said | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 remember | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 brethren | case |
| 23 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Joseph | case |
| 25 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 wished | advmod |
| 27 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wished | nsubj |
| 28 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 injure | mark |
| 30 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wished | xcomp |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 injure | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | girl | the voice of God | Bible's pages | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Topic from page=Source | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the voice of God not said here | girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | girl not said here | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remember not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · passive | of Joseph's brethren | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wish | past | persons | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | injure not said to happen | to-infinitive | persons not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | page | Bible | nom page «communication 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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