Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 48
"God grant that we once more may meet In sweet unclouded peace and joy."
Who acts: we · What happens: meet, uncloud · To what, where: God grant, sweet unclouded peace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | compound |
| 3 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 meet | obj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | nsubj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 meet | advmod |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 meet | aux |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grant | acl:relcl |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 13 peace | case |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peace | amod |
| 12 | unclouded | uncloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 peace | amod |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 joy | cc |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peace | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | may | we | God grant | sweet unclouded peace and joy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | uncloud in a quote | participle | 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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