Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 8
He has hard-hearted ministering spirits on earth, who do according to their own will, and heed not a mother's prayers."
Who acts: God, hearted ministering spirits, mother · What happens: have, minister, do, accord, pray · To what, where: hearted ministering spirits, earth
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 (God, hearted ministering spirits, mother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearted | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
| 5 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirits | amod |
| 6 | ministering | minister | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 spirits | amod |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirits | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spirits | conj |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 do | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 will | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 will | amod |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 according | aux |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heed | cc |
| 20 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 prayers | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mother | det |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 25 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heed | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | God | hearted ministering spirits | earth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient | |||
| 2 | minister | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | present | hearted ministering spirits | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | accord | future | hearted ministering spirits not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pray | a mother | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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