--- title: During the hour of this lesson, the Jewish girl was allowed to learn… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: During the hour of this lesson, the Jewish girl was allowed to learn her geography, or to work her sum for the next day; and when her geography lesson was perfect, the book remained open before her, but she read not another word, for she sat silently listening to the words of the Christian teacher. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Jewish Maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 3 During the hour of this lesson, the Jewish girl was allowed to learn her geography, or to work her sum for the next day; and when her geography lesson was perfect, the book remained open before her, but she read not another word, for she sat silently listening to the words of the Christian teacher. **Who acts:** Jewish girl, geography lesson, book, girl · **What happens:** allow, learn, work, be, remain, not read · **To what, where:** Jewish girl, geography, sum, word, Christian teacher 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 (Jewish girl, geography lesson, book, girl), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:67:3 # text = During the hour of this lesson, the Jewish girl was allowed to learn her geography, or to work her sum for the next day; and when her geography lesson was perfect, the book remained open before her, but she read not another word, for she sat silently listening to the words of the Christian teacher. 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Jewish Jewish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 before before ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 47 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 48 det _ _ 48 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 for for SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 53 silently silently ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 52 advcl _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obl _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** | past · passive | | the Jewish girl | | | hour | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Jewish girl *not said here* | girl's geography | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geography=Topic | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | the Jewish girl *not said here* | girl's sum | | | day | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent sum=Material | | 4 | **is** | past | girl's geography lesson | | | | | perfect *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **remain** | past | the book | | | | before girl | open *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | | 6 | **not** **read** | past | girl | another word | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 7 | **sit** | past | girl | | | | | silently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **listen** | gerund | girl *not said here* | | | | | to the words of the Christian teacher | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | | 9 | **sum** | | girl | | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **word** | | | the Christian teacher | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/4/) - ↑ back to [The Jewish Maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/)