Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 75
"Mother," she murmured, "thy child may not receive Christian baptism, nor be admitted into the congregation of Christian people.
Who acts: Mother, child · What happens: murmur, not receive, admit · To what, where: Christian baptism, congregation · 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 (Mother, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 murmured | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 murmured | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 murmured | nsubj |
| 6 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 receive | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 receive | punct |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 receive | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 receive | advmod |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 murmured | ccomp |
| 14 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 baptism | amod |
| 15 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 admitted | punct |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 admitted | cc |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 admitted | aux:pass |
| 19 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 receive | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 congregation | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 congregation | det |
| 22 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 admitted | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 congregation | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | past | Mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not receive in a quote | may | thy child | Christian baptism | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baptism=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other in a quote | infinitive · passive | the congregation of Christian people | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» |
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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