Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 8
Her father, a poor but honest man, had placed his daughter at the school on the conditions that she should not be instructed in the Christian faith.
Who acts: father · What happens: place, not instruct · To what, where: daughter, school, Sarah, Christian faith
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 (father), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 honest | cc |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 poor | conj |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | aux |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 school | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 school | det |
| 16 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 conditions | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 conditions | det |
| 19 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 placed | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 instructed | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 instructed | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 instructed | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 instructed | aux:pass |
| 25 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 conditions | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 faith | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 faith | det |
| 28 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 faith | amod |
| 29 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 instructed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect | Sarah's father and a poor man | book's daughter | the school | on the conditions | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme on condition=Destination | ||
| 2 | not instruct speech: other | should · passive | Sarah | the Christian faith | tree rules |
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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