Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 219
"O Lord, my Lord!" he cried, in his despair, "be merciful and grant me faith.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: cry, be, grant, despair · To what, where: despair, faith, Lord · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Lord | discourse |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lord | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lord | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lord | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lord | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 despair | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 despair | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 despair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 merciful | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 merciful | punct |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 merciful | cop |
| 18 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grant | cc |
| 20 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 merciful | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 grant | obj |
| 22 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grant | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Lord | Lord's despair | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | Lord not said here | merciful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | infinitive | Lord not said here | faith | Lord | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal faith=Theme | |||
| 4 | despair | Lord | nom despair «state 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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