Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 70
Then Helga the fair prayed more gently, and more earnestly, than she had ever prayed in her life before, that she might be permitted to gaze, if only for a single moment, at the glory and brightness of the heavenly kingdom.
Who acts: Helga, heavenly kingdom · What happens: pray, permit, gaze, glory · To what, where: life, Helga, glory
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, heavenly kingdom), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 prayed | advmod |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fair | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Helga | appos |
| 5 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 gently | advmod |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 prayed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 earnestly | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 earnestly | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 earnestly | advmod |
| 11 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 5 prayed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prayed | punct |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 prayed | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prayed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 prayed | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 prayed | advmod |
| 17 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 prayed | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prayed | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 prayed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 permitted | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 permitted | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 permitted | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 permitted | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 permitted | aux:pass |
| 27 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 prayed | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 gaze | mark |
| 29 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 permitted | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 moment | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 moment | mark |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 moment | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 moment | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 moment | det |
| 35 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 moment | amod |
| 36 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 permitted | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 glory | punct |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 glory | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 glory | det |
| 40 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 permitted | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 brightness | cc |
| 42 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 glory | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 kingdom | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 kingdom | det |
| 45 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 kingdom | amod |
| 46 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 glory | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Helga | then | earnestly, gently property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | pray | past · perfect | Helga | Helga's life | ever | before property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||
| 3 | permit | might · passive | Helga | the glory of the heavenly kingdom and brightness | moment | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | gaze not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | glory | the heavenly kingdom | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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