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title: "O Lord, my Lord!" he cried, in his despair, "be merciful and grant… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "O Lord, my Lord!" he cried, in his despair, "be merciful and grant me faith. Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 219

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"O Lord, my Lord!" he cried, in his despair, "be merciful and grant me faith.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** cry, be, grant, despair · **To what, where:** despair, faith, Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:151:219
# text = "O Lord, my Lord!" he cried, in his despair, "be merciful and grant me faith.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Lord |  |  | Lord's despair |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merciful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lord *not said here* | faith | Lord |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal faith=Theme |
| 4 | **despair** |  | Lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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