--- title: Merciful God, enlighten my understanding, shed light upon my heart;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Merciful God, enlighten my understanding, shed light upon my heart; for I cannot comprehend the arrangements of Thy providence, even while I bow to the decree of Thy almighty wisdom and power." Who acts: Merciful God, I, my, almighty wisdom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [XV. the Conclusion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/) / 69 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 69 Merciful God, enlighten my understanding, shed light upon my heart; for I cannot comprehend the arrangements of Thy providence, even while I bow to the decree of Thy almighty wisdom and power." **Who acts:** Merciful God, I, my, almighty wisdom · **What happens:** enlighten, shed, not comprehend, bow, understand, arrange · **To what, where:** understanding, arrangements, providence This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. 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, I, my, almighty wisdom), 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:pg27200:66:69 # text = Merciful God, enlighten my understanding, shed light upon my heart; for I cannot comprehend the arrangements of Thy providence, even while I bow to the decree of Thy almighty wisdom and power." 1 Merciful Merciful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 enlighten enlighten VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 shed shed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 comprehend comprehend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 arrangements arrangement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 providence providence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 decree decree NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 almighty almighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enlighten** | infinitive | Merciful God | my understanding and shed light upon my heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus understanding=Experiencer | | 2 | **shed** | participle | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **not** **comprehend** | can | I | the arrangements of Thy providence | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrangement=Stimulus | | 4 | **bow** | present | I | | | | | to the decree of Thy almighty wisdom and power | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to decree=Theme | | 5 | **understand** | | my | | | | | | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **arrange** | | | Thy providence | | | | | nom arrangement «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **decree** | | Thy almighty wisdom and power | | | | | | nom decree «communication intransitive»: of=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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/70/) - ↑ back to [XV. the Conclusion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/)