Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 23
Thou shalt keep the Sabbath holy," said the voice of the law in her heart; but her Sabbath was a working day among the Christians, which was a great trouble to her.
Who acts: Thou, Sabbath, Christians · What happens: keep, say, work, be · To what, where: Sabbath, voice, heart, working day, great trouble, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Thou, Sabbath, Christians), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sabbath | det |
| 5 | Sabbath | Sabbath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 law | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 law | det |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 day | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Sabbath | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Sabbath | Sabbath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 day | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 day | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 Christians | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Christians | det |
| 28 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 day | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trouble | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 trouble | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 trouble | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 trouble | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 trouble | amod |
| 34 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Christians | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 trouble | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | shall | Thou | the Sabbath | holy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabbath=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Thou not said here | the voice of the law | girl's heart | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in heart=Manner | |||
| 3 | work in a quote | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | girl's Sabbath | a working day | among the Christians and a great trouble | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | the Christians and a great trouble | a great trouble | girl | 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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