Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 24
And then as the thought arose in her mind, "Does God reckon by days and hours?" her conscience felt satisfied on this question, and she found it a comfort to her, that on the Christian Sabbath she could have an hour for her own prayers undisturbed.
Who acts: thought, God, conscience, that, Sabbath · What happens: arise, reckon, feel, find, have, mind · To what, where: mind, question, thought · 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 (thought, God, conscience, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 arose | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 arose | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 arose | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reckon | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 reckon | punct |
| 12 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reckon | aux |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reckon | nsubj |
| 14 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 felt | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reckon | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hours | cc |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 days | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 reckon | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 reckon | punct |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 22 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | advcl |
| 24 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 felt | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 question | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 question | det |
| 27 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 felt | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 found | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 found | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | parataxis |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | obj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 comfort | det |
| 34 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 have | nsubj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 Sabbath | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Sabbath | det |
| 41 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Sabbath | amod |
| 42 | Sabbath | Sabbath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 that | nmod |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | aux |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 found | conj |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 hour | det |
| 47 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 prayers | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 50 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 prayers | amod |
| 51 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 have | obl |
| 52 | undisturbed | undisturbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 have | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the thought | thought's mind | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||
| 2 | reckon in a quote | present · do-support | God | day | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | thought's conscience | this question | satisfied property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past | conscience | question | thought | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme comfort=Attribute | |||
| 5 | have | could | that | hour | for Sabbath's own prayers; undisturbed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | mind | thought | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | pray | Sabbath | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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