Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 58
Then the last words of her dying mother rose before her, "Let not my child become a Christian;" and with them sounded in her heart the words of the law, "Honor thy father and thy mother."
Who acts: child · What happens: die, let, not become, sound, word · To what, where: words, heart, mother rose, law
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 (child), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 words | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rose | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rose | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mother | amod |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | compound |
| 9 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rose | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 14 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 become | advmod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | nsubj |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Let | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Christian | det |
| 20 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sounded | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sounded | obl |
| 26 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Let | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sounded | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 words | det |
| 31 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sounded | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 law | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 law | det |
| 34 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 words | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Honor | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Honor | punct |
| 37 | Honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sounded | obl |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 father | nmod:poss |
| 39 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Honor | appos |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 mother | cc |
| 41 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 mother | nmod:poss |
| 42 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 father | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not become in a quote | infinitive | my child | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sound | past | the words of the law | girl's heart | with children = child; Honor obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | |||
| 5 | word | girl's mother rose before girl | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | word | the law | 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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