Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 50
"Heaven grant that I may dream how to save you," she replied.
Who acts: Heaven grant, Eliza · What happens: dream, save, reply · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven grant, Eliza), 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 | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grant | compound |
| 3 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | aux |
| 7 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grant | acl:relcl |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 save | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 save | mark |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dream | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 save | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | may | Heaven grant | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | Heaven grant not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Eliza | vn respond-113 «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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