Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 10

The teacher went to her father, and advised him to remove his daughter from the school, or to allow her to become a Christian. "

Who acts: teacher · What happens: go, advise, remove, allow, become · To what, where: teacher, daughter, school, Sarah, Christian

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teacher), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 advised	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 advised	cc
9	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 advised	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remove	mark
12	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 advised	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remove	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 school	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 school	det
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remove	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 allow	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 allow	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 allow	mark
21	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 remove	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 allow	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 become	mark
24	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 allow	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Christian	det
26	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 become	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the teacher				to Sarah's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	advise speech: other	past	the teacher not said here	teacher				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	remove not said to happen	to-infinitive	teacher not said here	teacher's daughter		the school		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from school=Source
4	allow	to-infinitive			Sarah			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	become not said to happen	to-infinitive		a Christian				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient christian=Result

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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