Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 28
The New Testament must remain to her a sealed book, and yet she knew a great deal of its teaching, and the sound of the gospel truths still lingered among the recollections of her childhood.
Who acts: New Testament, music, Testament · What happens: remain, seal, know, linger, deal, teach · To what, where: sealed book, music, great deal, sound, teaching, childhood
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 (New Testament, music, Testament), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Testament | det |
| 2 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Testament | amod |
| 3 | Testament | testament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | aux |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remain | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 9 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 book | amod |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 knew | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deal | amod |
| 18 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 teaching | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 teaching | nmod:poss |
| 21 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deal | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lingered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lingered | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lingered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 truths | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 truths | det |
| 28 | gospel | gospel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 truths | compound |
| 29 | truths | truth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sound | nmod |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 lingered | advmod |
| 31 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 knew | conj |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 34 recollections | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 recollections | det |
| 34 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lingered | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 childhood | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 37 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 recollections | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | must | the New Testament | a sealed book | music | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seal | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | music | a great deal of Testament's teaching | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | linger | participle · passive | the sound of the gospel truths | still | among the recollections of music's childhood | tree rules | |||
| 5 | deal | Testament's teaching | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | teach | Testament | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | recollect | music's childhood | nom recollection «cognition 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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