Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 92
And the Lord's Prayer went inaudibly over her lips; she bowed her head, and was so weary that she went to sleep.
Who acts: Prayer · What happens: go, bow, be, sleep · To what, where: lips, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prayer), 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 | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prayer | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Lord | case |
| 5 | Prayer | Prayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | inaudibly | inaudibly | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 lips | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 bowed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bowed | nsubj |
| 13 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bowed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weary | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weary | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 weary | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 weary | advmod |
| 20 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 went | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 weary | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 went | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Lord's Prayer | Prayer's lips | inaudibly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over lip=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bow | past | Prayer | Prayer's head | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | weary property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Prayer | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | Prayer not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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