Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 7

Their mother, too, had always spoken to them of right and justice, and exhorted them to keep to the truth, which she said was the countenance of the Lord in this world.

Who acts: housewife · What happens: speak, exhort, keep, say, be · To what, where: mother, sons, world, countenance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housewife), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 mother	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spoken	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 spoken	advmod
8	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoken	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 right	case
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spoken	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 justice	cc
14	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exhorted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 exhorted	cc
17	exhorted	exhort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spoken	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exhorted	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 exhorted	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 truth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 truth	det
23	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 said	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 countenance	acl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 countenance	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 countenance	det
30	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 truth	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Lord	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Lord	det
33	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 countenance	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		sons's mother	sons = son		of right and justice; always property	tree rules
2	exhort	past		sons = son				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	keep	to-infinitive				this world	to the truth	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in world=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	housewife	the countenance				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
5	is a	past		the countenance			of the Lord	tree rules

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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