Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 60
A little innocent child was weeping, and praying for mercy for her.
Who acts: little innocent child · What happens: weep, pray
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little innocent child), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 3 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weeping | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 weeping | aux |
| 6 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 praying | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 praying | cc |
| 9 | praying | pray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 weeping | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mercy | case |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praying | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 praying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past · progressive | a little innocent child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | gerund | a little innocent child not said here | for mercy; for child | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme |
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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