Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 26

She wept over it, kissed it, and prayed for it as only a mother can pray in that hour of her anguish."

Who acts: queen, mother · What happens: weep, kiss, pray, anguish · To what, where: crown

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, mother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kissed	punct
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kissed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prayed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 prayed	cc
10	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 prayed	obl
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 only	advmod
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 mother	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mother	det
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pray	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pray	aux
18	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 prayed	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pray	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 anguish	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 anguish	nmod:poss
24	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hour	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	queen		crown			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kiss	past	queen not said here	crown				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
3	pray	past	queen not said here				for crown	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	pray	can	a mother			hour		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	anguish		queen					nom anguish «feeling 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.

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