Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 178
And then he gave her back her lost soul, and brought her into the church. "
Who acts: child · What happens: give back, lose, bring · To what, where: lost soul, Anne, church
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 soul | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 soul | amod |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | past | child | Anne's lost soul | Anne | then | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient soul=Theme | ||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring | past | child not said here | Anne | the church | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into church=Destination |
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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