Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 61
Leave him to rest in peace, in Christ's name."
Who acts: you, Christ · What happens: leave, rest, name · To what, where: John, peace
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 (you, Christ), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 rest | mark |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leave | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 peace | case |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 9 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Christ | case |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | John | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | you not said here | peace | in Christ's name | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 3 | name | Christ | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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