Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 2

She was a good, intelligent child, and very quick at her lessons; but the Scripture-lesson class she was not allowed to join, for this was a Christian school.

Who acts: girl, Scripture lesson class, this · What happens: be, not allow, join · To what, where: lessons, Scripture lesson class

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 (girl, Scripture lesson class, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 good	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quick	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 quick	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 quick	advmod
11	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 lessons	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lessons	nmod:poss
14	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quick	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 allowed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 allowed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 class	det
18	Scripture	Scripture	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 class	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Scripture	punct
20	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 class	compound
21	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 allowed	nsubj:pass
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 allowed	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 allowed	aux:pass
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 allowed	advmod
25	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 good	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 join	mark
27	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 allowed	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 school	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 school	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 school	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 school	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 school	det
33	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 school	amod
34	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 join	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl			good property	tree rules
2	be		girl not said here		girl's lessons		tree rules
3	not allow	past · passive		the Scripture lesson class			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Scripture lesson class not said here				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	this			for a Christian school	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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