Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 86
There was no place for the Jewish girl; but they dug a grave for her outside the wall.
Who acts: place, neighbors · What happens: be, dig · To what, where: grave
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 (place, neighbors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4824): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 place | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dug | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dug | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dug | nsubj |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grave | det |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dug | obl |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no place for the Jewish girl | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dig | past | neighbors = neighbor | a grave | for place; outside the wall | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grave=Result for she=Beneficiary |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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