Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 73
She took the book, and folded her hand over the Bible of the Christians, and at last opened it, and read to the sick woman.
Who acts: Sarah · What happens: take, fold, open, read · To what, where: book, hand, Bible, head, last, sick woman
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 (Sarah), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 folded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 folded | cc |
| 7 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 folded | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 Bible | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bible | det |
| 12 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 folded | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Christians | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Christians | det |
| 15 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Bible | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opened | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 opened | obl |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 opened | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 read | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 read | cc |
| 24 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 27 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 woman | amod |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 read | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Sarah | the book | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fold | past | Sarah not said here | Sarah's hand | the Bible of the Christians | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | open | past | Sarah not said here | head | last | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 4 | read | infinitive | the sick woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient |
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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