Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 30
It was not the gospel he read, but an old story-book; therefore she might stay and listen to him.
Who acts: master, sound, music · What happens: not be, read, stay, listen · To what, where: gospel, old story book, sound
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 (master, sound, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gospel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gospel | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gospel | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gospel | det |
| 5 | gospel | gospel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 read | nsubj |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gospel | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 book | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 book | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 book | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 book | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 book | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 story | punct |
| 14 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 read | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 19 stay | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 read | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 listen | cc |
| 21 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stay | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 listen | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gospel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | master | the gospel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | past | sound | a old story book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gospel=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay | might | music | therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | listen | infinitive | music not said here | sound | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
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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