Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 106

Then the mother wrung her hands, fell on her knees, and prayed to God, "Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best.

Who acts: mother, prayers, my · What happens: wring, fall, pray, be · To what, where: hands, knees, Grant, God

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, prayers, my), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wrung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrung	nsubj
4	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrung	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prayed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prayed	cc
14	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 God	case
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 prayed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Grant	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Grant	punct
19	Grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prayed	obl
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 prayers	advmod
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prayers	nmod:poss
22	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Grant	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 contrary	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 contrary	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 contrary	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 contrary	cop
27	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prayed	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 will	case
29	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 will	nmod:poss
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 contrary	aux
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 best	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 best	nsubj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 times	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 times	det
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 best	obl
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 best	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 best	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 best	det
39	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 contrary	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wring	past	the mother	mother's hands			then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	fall	past	the mother not said here			mother's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	pray	past	the mother not said here	Grant my prayers	God				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is in a quote	present	prayers = prayer					contrary property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	must					time	good property	tree rules
6	pray in a quote		my						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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