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title: The following Sunday I went to the house of God to pray for light to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The following Sunday I went to the house of God to pray for light to direct my path. Who acts: following Sunday. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 115

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The following Sunday I went to the house of God to pray for light to direct my path.

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**Who acts:** following Sunday · **What happens:** follow, go, pray, direct · **To what, where:** house, path

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following Sunday), 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:pg27200:46:115
# text = The following Sunday I went to the house of God to pray for light to direct my path.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the following Sunday |  |  | the house of God |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive | the following Sunday *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for light | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for light=Theme |
| 4 | **direct** | to-infinitive | the following Sunday *not said here* | my path |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality |

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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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