Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 22

The clergyman offered a short prayer, and said that God had closed the door of His house here, and that the congregation must go and build a new one for Him somewhere else.

Who acts: clergyman, congregation · What happens: offer, say, close, go, build · To what, where: short prayer, God, new one · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clergyman, congregation), 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	2 clergyman	det
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prayer	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prayer	amod
6	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 closed	mark
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 closed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 closed	aux
13	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 closed	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	nmod
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 closed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 congregation	det
24	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 offered	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 build	cc
28	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 build	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 Him	case
33	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 build	obl
34	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 build	advmod
35	else	else	ADV	_	34 somewhere	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past	the clergyman	a short prayer			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	close	past · perfect · passive		God	here		tree rules
4	go	must	the congregation				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	build	infinitive	the congregation not said here	a new one		for God; somewhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Product for he=Beneficiary

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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