Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 80
She bowed her knees, and prayed for forgiveness.
Who acts: mother · What happens: bow, pray · To what, where: knees
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 knees | nmod:poss |
| 4 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bowed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prayed | cc |
| 7 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 forgiveness | case |
| 9 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prayed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | mother | mother's knees | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pray | past | mother not said here | for forgiveness | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for forgiveness=Theme |
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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