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title: An angel of justice read their crimes and their defence; the latter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: An angel of justice read their crimes and their defence; the latter was not a brilliant one, but it was read before God, Who reads the heart, Who knows everything, the wickedness that comes from within and from without, Who is mercy and love personified. Who acts: angel, latter, brilliant one, heart
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 81

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An angel of justice read their crimes and their defence; the latter was not a brilliant one, but it was read before God, Who reads the heart, Who knows everything, the wickedness that comes from within and from without, Who is mercy and love personified.

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**Who acts:** angel, latter, brilliant one, heart, wickedness, hands · **What happens:** read, not be, know, come, be, personify · **To what, where:** crimes, brilliant one, angel, heart, everything, mercy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, latter, brilliant one, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:2:81
# text = An angel of justice read their crimes and their defence; the latter was not a brilliant one, but it was read before God, Who reads the heart, Who knows everything, the wickedness that comes from within and from without, Who is mercy and love personified.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	obl	_	_
41	within	within	ADP	IN	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	conj	_	_
44	without	without	ADP	IN	_	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	personified	personify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | a angel of justice | hands's crimes and hands's defence |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the latter | a brilliant one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | past · passive | a brilliant one *not said here* | angel |  |  | before God |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **read** | present | a brilliant one | the heart |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic |
| 5 | **know** | present | the heart | everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** | present | the wickedness |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | present |  | mercy and love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **personify** | past | the wickedness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **incriminate** |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **defend** |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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