More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 52
Pray God send plenty more!"
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, send · To what, where: God, plenty
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pray | obj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | xcomp |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 send | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | infinitive | you not said here | plenty | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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