Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 91

Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her knees, and prayed to our Lord: “Oh, hear me not when I pray against Thy will, which is the best! hear me not! hear me not!”

Who acts: mother, Death · What happens: wring, fall, pray, not hear, be · To what, where: hands, knees, Lord, Death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Death), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wrung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrung	nsubj
4	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrung	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prayed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prayed	cc
14	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Lord	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Lord	nmod:poss
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 prayed	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
20	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	22 hear	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Oh	punct
22	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hear	advmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 pray	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 pray	nsubj
27	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	advcl
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 will	case
29	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 will	nmod:poss
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 pray	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 best	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 best	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 best	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 best	det
35	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 hear	parataxis
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 hear	punct
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 best	csubj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 hear	obj
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 hear	advmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 hear	punct
41	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hear	xcomp
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 hear	obj
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 hear	advmod
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 hear	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wring	past	the mother	mother's hands			then		tree rules
2	fall	past	the mother not said here			mother's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	pray	past	the mother not said here		our Lord				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not hear in a quote	infinitive		Death					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	pray in a quote	present	Death						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is in a quote	present						good property	tree rules
7	not hear in a quote	infinitive		Death					tree rules
8	not hear in a quote	infinitive	Death not said here	Death					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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