Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 59
Even Helga had heard of this belief in the teachings of One who was named Christ, and who for the love of mankind, and for their redemption, had given up His life.
Who acts: teachings · What happens: hear, name, give up, love, redeem · To what, where: Helga, teachings, life, mankind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teachings), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 Helga | advmod |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 belief | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 belief | det |
| 7 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 teachings | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teachings | det |
| 10 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 One | case |
| 12 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 named | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 named | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 named | aux:pass |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 teachings | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 given | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 given | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 given | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 love | det |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mankind | case |
| 24 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 given | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 given | cc |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 redemption | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 redemption | nmod:poss |
| 29 | redemption | redemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 redemption | punct |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 given | aux |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 given | compound:prt |
| 34 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 life | nmod:poss |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect · passive | Helga | the teachings | of this belief | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | name | past · passive | the teachings | of One | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give up | past · perfect · passive | Christ's life | for the love of mankind; for teachings's redemption | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | mankind | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | redeem | teachings = teaching | nom redemption «act 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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