Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 52
But before I die, explain to me the teaching which is so full of love and mercy, so great and God-like.
Who acts: I, you, teaching · What happens: die, explain, be · To what, where: teaching, me
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 (I, you, teaching), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 explain | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 explain | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 6 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 explain | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teaching | det |
| 10 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 explain | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 full | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 full | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 full | advmod |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teaching | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mercy | cc |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 love | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 great | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 great | advmod |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 explain | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 like | cc |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 like | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 great | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the teaching | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent teaching=Topic to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the teaching | of love and mercy; full property | tree rules |
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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