Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 81

But suddenly it seemed to her that there stood on the threshold a beautiful young form, as beautiful as the count's child, and this apparition said to her, "The world is passing away; hold fast to me, for you are my mother after all; you have an angel in heaven, hold me fast;" and the child-angel stretched out his hand and seized her.

Who acts: it, apparition, world, Anne · What happens: seem, stand, say, pass away, hold, be · To what, where: Anne, beautiful young form, threshold, apparition, angel, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, apparition, world, Anne), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stood	mark
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stood	advmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 threshold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 threshold	det
12	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 form	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beautiful	punct
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 beautiful	advmod
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 child	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 count	det
22	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 child	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 count	case
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beautiful	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 apparition	det
28	apparition	apparition	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 passing	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 passing	punct
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 passing	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 passing	aux
37	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 said	advcl
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 passing	advmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 hold	punct
40	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
41	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 hold	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 hold	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 mother	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	49 mother	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 mother	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 mother	cop
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 mother	nmod:poss
49	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hold	obl
50	after	after	ADP	_	51 all	case
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 mother	nmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 have	punct
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 have	nsubj
54	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 angel	det
56	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 have	obj
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 heaven	case
58	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 angel	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 hold	punct
60	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	54 have	parataxis
61	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 hold	obj
62	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	60 hold	advmod
63	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 stretched	cc
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 angel	det
67	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 angel	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 child	punct
69	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 stretched	nsubj:pass
70	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seemed	conj
71	out	out	ADP	_	70 stretched	compound:prt
72	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 hand	nmod:poss
73	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 stretched	obj
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 seized	cc
75	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 stretched	conj
76	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 seized	obj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		Anne			suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	stand	past		a beautiful young form		the threshold; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme on threshold=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	this apparition		Anne				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	pass away in a quote	present · progressive	the world					away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	hold in a quote	infinitive			this apparition = apparition			fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	Anne				after all	for my mother	tree rules
7	have in a quote	present	Anne	a angel		heaven			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Patient
8	hold in a quote	infinitive		this apparition = apparition				fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	stretch out	participle · passive		the child angel					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient hand=Result
10	seize	past		Anne					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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