Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 85
"Father of all mercy, grant Thou to her the peace that I was unable to procure for her!"
Who acts: grant, peace · What happens: peace, be, procure · To what, where: Father
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grant, peace), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mercy | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 mercy | det |
| 5 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grant | punct |
| 7 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peace | nsubj |
| 8 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 peace | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Thou | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peace | det |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | acl:relcl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 unable | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 unable | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 unable | cop |
| 16 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 procure | mark |
| 18 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 unable | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 procure | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peace in a quote | grant | Father of all mercy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the peace | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | procure in a quote | to-infinitive | the peace not said here | for mercy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary |
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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