Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 53
Oh, that I may hear his teaching, and die a Christian!"
Who acts: I, God · What happens: hear, die, teach · To what, where: teaching, Christian
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, God), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 hear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teaching | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 die | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 die | cc |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hear | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Christian | det |
| 13 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 die | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | may | I | God's teaching | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teaching=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | I not said here | a Christian | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | teach | God | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=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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