Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 59

"I am not admitted among the Christians," she said; "they mock me as a Jewish girl; the neighbors' boys did so last Sunday when I stood looking in through the open church door at the candles burning on the altar, and listening to the singing.

Who acts: children, boys, I, candles · What happens: not admit, say, mock, do, stand, look in · To what, where: I, me, altar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, boys, I, candles), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 admitted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 admitted	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 admitted	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 admitted	advmod
5	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 Christians	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Christians	det
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Christians	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Christians	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 admitted	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 mock	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 mock	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mock	nsubj
16	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 mock	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 girl	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mock	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 did	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 neighbors	det
24	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 boys	nmod:poss
25	'	's	PART	_	24 neighbors	case
26	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 admitted	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 Sunday	advmod
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Sunday	amod
30	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 did	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 stood	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 did	advcl
34	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 stood	xcomp
35	in	in	ADV	_	34 looking	advmod
36	through	through	ADP	_	40 door	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 door	det
38	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 door	amod
39	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 door	compound
40	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 looking	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 candles	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 candles	det
43	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 looking	obl
44	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 candles	acl
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 altar	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 altar	det
47	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 burning	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 listening	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 listening	cc
50	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 did	advcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 singing	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 singing	det
53	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 listening	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not admit speech: other in a quote	present · passive		I				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mock in a quote	present	children = child	me			as a Jewish girl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme as girl=Attribute
4	do in a quote	past	the neighbors's boys			sunday		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand in a quote	past	I					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	look in in a quote	gerund	I not said here				at the candles; through the open church door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme
7	burn in a quote	gerund	the candles not said here		the altar			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on altar=Location
8	listen in a quote	gerund	the neighbors's boys not said here				to the singing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to singing=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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