Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 96

But pray to God that he will preserve my life."

Who acts: you, BEARSKIN · What happens: pray, preserve · To what, where: God, life

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, BEARSKIN), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 pray	cc
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 God	case
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 preserve	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 preserve	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 preserve	aux
8	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pray	advcl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preserve	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here		God				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	preserve	future	BEARSKIN	my life					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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