Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 51
And this thought took such hold upon her mind that she prayed earnestly to God for help, and even in her sleep she continued to pray.
Who acts: thought · What happens: take, pray, continue, mind, sleep · To what, where: such hold, God, sleep
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 (thought), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | det |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hold | amod |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 prayed | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prayed | nsubj |
| 12 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 13 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 prayed | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 God | case |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 prayed | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 help | case |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prayed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sleep | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sleep | cc |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | conj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 continued | nsubj |
| 25 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pray | mark |
| 27 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 continued | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this thought | such hold | upon thought's mind | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | pray | past | thought | God | for help; earnestly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for help=Theme | |||
| 3 | continue | past | thought | thought's sleep not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pray | to-infinitive | thought not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | mind | thought | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sleep | thought | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/51/