Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 45

Then the sunbeam spoke of the boundless love of God, as seen in creation, and over all that lives, and of the equal distribution of His gifts, both in time and in eternity.

Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: speak, see, love, distribute, gift · To what, where: lives, creation, God, gifts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sunbeam	det
3	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 love	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 love	det
7	boundless	boundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 love	amod
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 God	case
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 love	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spoke	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 creation	case
15	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lives	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lives	cc
18	over	over	ADP	_	21 lives	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 lives	det:predet
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 lives	det
21	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 distribution	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 distribution	cc
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 distribution	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 distribution	det
26	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 distribution	amod
27	distribution	distribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 gifts	case
29	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 gifts	nmod:poss
30	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 distribution	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 time	punct
32	both	both	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc:preconj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eternity	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 eternity	case
37	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 time	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the sunbeam		all lives	then	of the boundless love of God; of the equal distribution of sunbeam's gifts	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	participle	the sunbeam not said here		creation			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	love			God				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	distribute			sunbeam's gifts				nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	gift		sunbeam					nom gift «possession 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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