Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 14
She was praying the Lord's prayer aloud.
Who acts: sister, Lord · What happens: pray · To what, where: prayer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, Lord), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 praying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 praying | aux |
| 3 | praying | pray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lord | det |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Lord | case |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praying | obj |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 3 praying | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 praying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past · progressive | sister | the Lord's prayer | aloud property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pray | the Lord | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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