Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 17

In one of the smallest provincial towns, in a humble household, lived a poor maiden of the Jewish faith, as a servant.

Who acts: smallest provincial towns · What happens: live · To what, where: poor maiden

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 (smallest provincial towns), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lived	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 towns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 towns	det
5	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 towns	amod
6	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 towns	amod
7	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 household	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 household	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 household	det
11	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 household	amod
12	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 towns	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 towns	punct
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maiden	amod
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 faith	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 faith	det
20	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 faith	amod
21	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maiden	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 servant	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 servant	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 servant	det
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the smallest provincial towns and a humble household	a poor maiden of the Jewish faith				in one; as a servant	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location

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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