Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 38
"God grant it!" said the mother, but she did not believe it would be so.
Who acts: God, mother, sun · What happens: grant, say, not believe, be · To what, where: sun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, mother, sun), 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 | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grant | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mother | det |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 believe | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 believe | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 believe | advmod |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 so | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 so | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 so | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 believe | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant in a quote | infinitive | God | sun | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not believe | past · do-support | mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | would | sun | so property | tree rules |
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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