Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 66
Let us pray that God may take him," he said, "for he will never be the same man again."
Who acts: you, us, God, Jurgen · What happens: let, pray, take, say, not be · To what, where: us, Jurgen, same man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, God, Jurgen), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 man | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 man | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 man | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 man | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray | infinitive | us not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | may | God | Jurgen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Jurgen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is a | future | Jurgen | the same man | again | 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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