Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 62
"Oh, stay, stay!" implored the mother; "only one moment more; only once more, that I may look upon thee, and kiss thee, and press thee to my heart."
Who acts: child · What happens: stay, implore, look, kiss · To what, where: mother, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 stay | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 implored | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 9 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mother | det |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 implored | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 moment | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 moment | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 moment | nummod |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 implored | obl |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 implored | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 once | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 once | advmod |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 implored | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 look | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 look | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 look | aux |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 implored | parataxis |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 thee | case |
| 28 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 look | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kiss | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kiss | cc |
| 31 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 look | conj |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 kiss | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 press | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 press | cc |
| 35 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 implored | parataxis |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 press | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 heart | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 press | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 press | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 press | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | implore | past | the mother | moment | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | may | the child = child | upon thee | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon thou=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | the child = child not said here | thee | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-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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