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title: The teaching of Christ, the Teacher, commands us to forgive our enem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The teaching of Christ, the Teacher, commands us to forgive our enemies, to love our neighbors; for God is love. Who acts: teaching, God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 43

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The teaching of Christ, the Teacher, commands us to forgive our enemies, to love our neighbors; for God is love.

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**Who acts:** teaching, God · **What happens:** command, forgive, love, be, teach · **To what, where:** us, enemies, neighbors, Christ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (teaching, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:67:43
# text = The teaching of Christ, the Teacher, commands us to forgive our enemies, to love our neighbors; for God is love.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	commands	command	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | present | the teaching of Christ and the Teacher | us |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **forgive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the teaching of Christ and the Teacher *not said here* | our enemies |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive | the teaching of Christ and the Teacher *not said here* | our neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | God |  |  |  |  | for love | tree rules |
| 5 | **teach** |  |  | Christ and the Teacher |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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