--- title: “Merciful God, where am I!” exclaimed he in agony; and while he so t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Merciful God, where am I!” exclaimed he in agony; and while he so thought, all his ideas and feelings of overpowering dizziness, against which he struggled with the utmost power of desperation, encompassed him with renewed force. Who acts: Merciful God, Hostess, ideas. 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C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merciful God, Hostess, ideas), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:6:3 # text = “Merciful God, where am I!” exclaimed he in agony; and while he so thought, all his ideas and feelings of overpowering dizziness, against which he struggled with the utmost power of desperation, encompassed him with renewed force. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Merciful Merciful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 3 conj _ _ 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 agony agony NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 of of SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 overpowering overpower VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 28 dizziness dizziness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 against against ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 struggled struggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 utmost utmost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 desperation desperation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 encompassed encompass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 renewed renew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Merciful God *= god* | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Merciful God | Hostess | | agony | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Hostess | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **overpower** | gerund | Hostess's ideas and feelings *not said here* | dizziness | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **struggle** | past | Hostess | | | | | with the utmost power of desperation | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with power=Co-Agent | | 6 | **encompass** | past | Hostess *not said here* | Hostess | | | | with renewed force | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 7 | **renew** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/4/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/)