Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 82

The pious old wife of the merchant repeated these words from the Psalms of David in patience and hope, and the prayer of her heart was that Jurgen might soon be called away to enter into eternal life.

Who acts: pious old wife, heart · What happens: repeat, call away, enter, pray · To what, where: words, Psalms, prayer, eternal life

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 (pious old wife, heart), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
2	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 repeated	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 merchant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 repeated	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 Psalms	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Psalms	det
13	Psalms	Psalm	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 words	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 David	case
15	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Psalms	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 patience	case
17	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 repeated	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hope	cc
19	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 patience	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prayer	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prayer	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 prayer	det
23	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 called	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 heart	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heart	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prayer	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 called	aux:pass
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 called	mark
29	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 called	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 called	aux
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 called	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 called	aux:pass
33	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 repeated	parataxis
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 called	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 enter	mark
36	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 called	xcomp
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 life	case
38	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 life	amod
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 enter	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	the pious old wife of the merchant	this words	the Psalms of David	in patience and hope	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	call away speech: assert	might · past · passive		the prayer of wife's heart		away, soon property	tree rules
3	enter	to-infinitive			eternal life		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial_Location
4	pray		wife's heart				nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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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