English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 28

“Much praying, much praying” (_piously_).

Who acts: Much praying · What happens: pray

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Much praying), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 praying	punct
2	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 praying	amod
3	praying	praying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praying	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 praying	punct
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 praying	advmod
6	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 praying	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 piously	punct
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 piously	punct
10	piously	piously	ADV	_	6 praying	advmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 piously	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 piously	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 praying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray in a quote	gerund	Much praying					piously property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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