Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 78
He came down from heaven to earth to suffer for us, that we should bring forth the fruits of repentance.
Who acts: God, we · What happens: come down, suffer, bring · To what, where: heaven, fruits
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 heaven | case |
| 5 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 suffer | mark |
| 9 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 suffer | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bring | aux |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 suffer | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fruits | det |
| 19 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bring | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 repentance | case |
| 21 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fruits | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | God | heaven | to earth; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location to earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | suffer | to-infinitive | God not said here | for us | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | bring | should | we | the fruits of repentance | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=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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