Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 37

He bowed himself before bishop and monk; but when he offended the free peasants with heavy taxes and hard words, they seized their weapons and put him to flight like a wild beast.

Who acts: King, peasants · What happens: bow, offend, seize, put · To what, where: King, free peasants, weapons

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, peasants), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 bowed	obj
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 bishop	case
5	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 monk	cc
7	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bishop	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 seized	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seized	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 offended	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 offended	nsubj
12	offended	offend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seized	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peasants	det
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 peasants	amod
15	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offended	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 taxes	case
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 taxes	amod
18	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offended	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 words	cc
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taxes	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 offended	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seized	nsubj
24	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	parataxis
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 weapons	nmod:poss
26	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seized	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seized	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 flight	case
31	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	35 beast	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 beast	det
34	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 beast	amod
35	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	King	King		before bishop and monk		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	offend	past	King	the free peasants			with heavy taxes and hard words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus peasant=Experiencer
3	seize	past	peasants = peasant	peasants's weapons				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
4	put	infinitive	peasants = peasant not said here		King		to flight; like a wild beast	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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