Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 20
Your father is up there, and he prays to the loving Father of all, that you may do well in the future."
Who acts: father, you · What happens: be, pray, do · To what, where: future
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prays | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prays | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 prays | nsubj |
| 9 | prays | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Father | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Father | det |
| 12 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Father | amod |
| 13 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prays | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Father | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prays | conj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 future | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 future | det |
| 24 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 prays | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your father | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | father | to the loving Father of all | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | do | may | you | the future | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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