Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 26

Then she would read in the Old Testament, that treasure and comfort to her people, and it was indeed the only Scriptures she could read.

Who acts: music, comfort, only Scriptures · What happens: read, be · To what, where: Old Testament, only Scriptures

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 (music, comfort, only Scriptures), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 read	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 Testament	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Testament	det
7	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Testament	amod
8	Testament	Testament	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 treasure	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 treasure	det
11	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Testament	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comfort	cc
13	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treasure	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 people	nmod:poss
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 treasure	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 read	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Scriptures	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Scriptures	cop
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	24 Scriptures	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Scriptures	det
23	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Scriptures	amod
24	Scriptures	Scripture	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 read	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 read	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 read	aux
27	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would	music		the Old Testament	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	comfort	the only Scriptures			indeed property	tree rules
3	read	could	the only Scriptures					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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