Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 19

The clergyman had delivered a beautiful and touching sermon, the candidates were deeply moved by it; it was indeed a very important day for them; they were all at once transformed from mere children to grown-up people; the childish soul was to fly over, as it were, into a more reasonable being.

Who acts: clergyman, candidates, childish soul · What happens: deliver, touch, move, be, transform, grow up · To what, where: clergyman, candidates, important day

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clergyman, candidates, childish soul), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clergyman	det
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delivered	aux
4	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sermon	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sermon	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 touching	cc
8	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 beautiful	conj
9	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moved	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 candidates	det
12	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 moved	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 moved	aux:pass
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	15 moved	advmod
15	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 delivered	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 moved	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 day	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 day	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 day	cop
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 day	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 day	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 important	advmod
24	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	obl:unmarked
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 day	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 transformed	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 transformed	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 transformed	aux
31	all	all	ADV	_	34 transformed	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 transformed	obl
34	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 delivered	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 children	case
36	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 children	amod
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 transformed	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 people	case
39	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 people	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 up	punct
41	up	up	ADP	_	39 grown	compound:prt
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 transformed	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 fly	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 soul	det
45	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 soul	amod
46	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fly	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 fly	cop
48	to	to	PART	_	49 fly	mark
49	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delivered	conj
50	over	over	ADV	_	49 fly	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 reasonable	punct
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 reasonable	mark
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 reasonable	expl
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 reasonable	cop
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 reasonable	punct
56	into	into	ADP	_	59 reasonable	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 reasonable	det
58	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	59 reasonable	advmod
59	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fly	parataxis
60	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 reasonable	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deliver	past · perfect · passive		the clergyman		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sermon=Patient
2	touch	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	past · passive		the candidates	by clergyman; deeply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	is a	past	clergyman	a important day	for candidates = candidate; indeed property	tree rules
5	transform	past · passive	candidates = candidate		from mere children; to grown people; all property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient from child=Initial_State
6	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the childish soul		fly, over property	tree rules
8	is	past			reasonable property	tree rules

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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