Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 56
I pray the Heavenly Power To keep thee till thy dying hour."
Who acts: I · What happens: pray, keep, die · To what, where: Heavenly Power, thee
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Power | det |
| 4 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Power | amod |
| 5 | Power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pray | obj |
| 6 | To | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pray | advcl |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 hour | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 hour | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hour | amod |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | the Heavenly Power | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | hour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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