--- title: "Oh, stay, stay!" implored the mother; "only one moment more; only o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh, stay, stay!" implored the mother; "only one moment more; only once more, that I may look upon thee, and kiss thee, and press thee to my heart." Who acts: child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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:pg27200:17:62 # text = "Oh, stay, stay!" implored the mother; "only one moment more; only once more, that I may look upon thee, and kiss thee, and press thee to my heart." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 implored implore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 advmod _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 press press NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 36 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **implore** | past | | the mother | | | moment | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | may | the child *= child* | | | | | upon thee | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon thou=Theme | | 5 | **kiss** *in a quote* | infinitive | the child *= child* *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/17/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/17/63/) - ↑ back to [The Child in the Grave](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/17/)