Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 8
Our all-merciful God will surely not take him away from me."
Who acts: merciful · What happens: not take · To what, where: man
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 (merciful), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 merciful | nmod:poss |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 merciful | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | merciful | merciful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | nsubj |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 merciful | appos |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 7 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 away | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | future | Our merciful | man | away, surely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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