Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 115
The following Sunday I went to the house of God to pray for light to direct my path.
Who acts: following Sunday · What happens: follow, go, pray, direct · To what, where: house, path
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following Sunday), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sunday | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Sunday | amod |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pray | mark |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pray | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 direct | mark |
| 16 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pray | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 path | nmod:poss |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 direct | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | the following Sunday | the house of God | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pray | to-infinitive | the following Sunday not said here | for light | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for light=Theme | ||||
| 4 | direct | to-infinitive | the following Sunday not said here | my path | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality |
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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