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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 89

She bowed herself humbly, confessed her great imperfections in the sight of Him who can read every fault of the heart, and then the priest spoke. "

Who acts: love, sight, priest · What happens: bow, confess, read, speak, sight, fault · To what, where: love, great imperfections, sight, fault, Providence, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, sight, priest), 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

nsubjobjadvmodpunctparataxisnmod:possamodobjcasedetoblcasenmodnsubjauxacl:relcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctccadvmoddetnsubjconjpunctpunctrootShePRONbowedVERBherselfPRONhumblyADV,PUNCTconfessedVERBherPRONgreatADJimperfectionsNOUNinADPtheDETsightNOUNofADPHimPRONwhoPRONcanAUXreadVERBeveryDETfaultNOUNofADPtheDETheartNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVtheDETpriestNOUNspokeVERB.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 bowednsubj
2bowedbowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes2 bowedobj
4humblyhumblyADV_2 bowedadvmod
5,,PUNCT_6 confessedpunct
6confessedconfessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 bowedparataxis
7herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 imperfectionsnmod:poss
8greatgreatADJDegree=Pos9 imperfectionsamod
9imperfectionsimperfectionNOUNNumber=Plur6 confessedobj
10ininADP_12 sightcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 sightdet
12sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing6 confessedobl
13ofofADP_14 Himcase
14HimhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 sightnmod
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel17 readnsubj
16cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin17 readaux
17readreadVERBVerbForm=Inf12 sightacl:relcl
18everyeveryDETPronType=Tot19 faultdet
19faultfaultNOUNNumber=Sing17 readobj
20ofofADP_22 heartcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 heartdet
22heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing19 faultnmod
23,,PUNCT_28 spokepunct
24andandCCONJ_28 spokecc
25thenthenADVPronType=Dem28 spokeadvmod
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 priestdet
27priestpriestNOUNNumber=Sing28 spokensubj
28spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 confessedconj
29..PUNCT_2 bowedpunct
30""PUNCT_2 bowedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bowpastlovelovehumbly propertyvn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2confesspastlove's great imperfectionsthe sight of Providencevn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imperfection=Topic
3readcanthe sight of Providenceevery fault of the heartvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
4speak speech: otherpastthe priestthenvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5sightProvidencenom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6faultthe heartnom fault «act transitive»: of=patient

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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