Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 20
Oh, pray, pray for those who are wandering to find graves beyond the foaming billows."
What happens: pray, wonder, find · To what, where: graves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 pray | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pray | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 pray | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wandering | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wandering | aux |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wandering | xcomp |
| 13 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 billows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 billows | det |
| 16 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 billows | compound |
| 17 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | pray | present | for those | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for that=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | present · progressive | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | graves | beyond the foaming billows | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Topic |
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: «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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