More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 60
"Pray God send the soul to heaven!
Who acts: God · What happens: pray, send · To what, where: soul, heaven
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 (God), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 send | advcl |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soul | det |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | infinitive | God not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | infinitive | God | the soul | heaven | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soul=Theme to heaven=Destination |
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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