Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 2
The horned helmets came from costumes for an opera in 1876; no Viking-age helmet with horns has ever been found, and horns would just be something for an enemy to grab.
Who acts: horned helmets, horns · What happens: come, find, be, grab · To what, where: costumes, age helmet, something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horned helmets, horns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 helmets | det |
| 2 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 helmets | amod |
| 3 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 costumes | case |
| 6 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 opera | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 opera | det |
| 9 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 costumes | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1876 | case |
| 11 | 1876 | 1876 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 opera | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 helmet | det |
| 14 | Viking | viking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 age | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Viking | punct |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 helmet | compound |
| 17 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 horns | case |
| 19 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 helmet | nmod |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 found | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 something | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 something | cc |
| 26 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 something | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 something | aux |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 something | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 something | cop |
| 30 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 came | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 enemy | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 enemy | det |
| 33 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 something | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 grab | mark |
| 35 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 enemy | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the horned helmets | costumes for a opera in 1876 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from costume=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | present · perfect · passive | no age helmet with horns | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | horns | something | for a enemy | tree rules | |||
| 4 | grab | to-infinitive | horns not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:2.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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