Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 16

Or was his sin so great that, if he dared utter it, the Celestial Empire would punish it with death?

Who acts: sin, occupation, Celestial Empire · What happens: be, dare, punish · To what, where: sin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sin, occupation, Celestial Empire), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 great	cc
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 great	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sin	nmod:poss
4	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 great	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 great	advmod
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 punish	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 dared	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dared	nsubj
11	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 punish	advcl
12	utter	utt	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 dared	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 utter	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dared	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Empire	det
16	Celestial	Celestial	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Empire	compound
17	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 punish	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 punish	aux
19	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 great	csubj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 punish	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 punish	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	occupation's sin		great property	tree rules
2	dare a condition, not said to happen	past	occupation		utt property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	punish	would	the Celestial Empire	sin	with death	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Patient with death=Theme

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.

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