Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 166

It would be only through mercy that I can be allowed to slip in through the gate."

Who acts: claim, mercy · What happens: be, allow, slip in · To what, where: mercy, gate

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (claim, mercy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mercy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mercy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mercy	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 mercy	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	aux:pass
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mercy	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 slip	mark
13	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	xcomp
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 slip	advmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slip	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mercy	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mercy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	would	claim		mercy	tree rules
2	allow	can · passive		mercy		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	slip in not said to happen	to-infinitive	mercy not said here		the gate	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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