Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 27
Faithfully in her inmost thoughts had she kept the words of her father to her teacher when she left the school, and the vow he had made to her dying mother that she should never receive Christian baptism.
Who acts: inmost thoughts, thought, music · What happens: have, keep, leave, make, die, not receive · To what, where: words, school, vow, Christian baptism, father
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 (inmost thoughts, thought, music), 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 | Faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 thoughts | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thoughts | amod |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | advcl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 teacher | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 16 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 left | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 school | det |
| 21 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vow | det |
| 25 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kept | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 mother | amod |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 receive | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 receive | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 receive | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 receive | advmod |
| 37 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 mother | acl |
| 38 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 baptism | amod |
| 39 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 receive | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | music's inmost thoughts | faithfully property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | thought | the words of music's father | to music's teacher | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | music | the school | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | the vow | to music's dying mother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 6 | not receive | should | music | Christian baptism | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baptism=Theme | ||||
| 7 | think | music | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | word | music's father | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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