Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 42
King Canute knelt before the altar in prayer; his brothers Eric and Benedict stood by him as a guard with drawn swords; but the King's servant, the treacherous Blake, betrayed his master.
Who acts: King, brothers, servant · What happens: kneel, stand, draw, betray · To what, where: prayer, master
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, brothers, servant), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | Canute | Canute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 altar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 altar | det |
| 6 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 prayer | case |
| 8 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | Eric | Eric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brothers | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Benedict | cc |
| 14 | Benedict | Benedict | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Eric | conj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knelt | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 guard | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 guard | det |
| 20 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 swords | case |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 swords | amod |
| 23 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 betrayed | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 betrayed | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 servant | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 King | case |
| 29 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betrayed | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Blake | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Blake | det |
| 32 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Blake | amod |
| 33 | Blake | Blake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 servant | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 servant | punct |
| 35 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knelt | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 master | nmod:poss |
| 37 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betrayed | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | King | prayer | before the altar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | King's brothers | by King; as a guard; with drawn swords | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | betray | past | the King's servant | King's master | tree rules |
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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