Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 50
Oh, how she wept and prayed that she also might die!
Who acts: girl · What happens: weep, pray, die
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 wept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 wept | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prayed | cc |
| 7 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 die | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 die | advmod |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | aux |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prayed | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | girl | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | past | girl not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | might | girl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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