Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 25
In the old heathen days, in the times of the Vikings, the popular speech was enshrined in the harp of the bard.
What happens: enshrine · To what, where: popular speech, harp
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 4 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | compound |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 enshrined | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 times | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 times | det |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 days | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Vikings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Vikings | det |
| 12 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 times | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 speech | det |
| 15 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speech | amod |
| 16 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enshrined | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enshrined | aux:pass |
| 18 | enshrined | enshrine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 harp | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 harp | det |
| 21 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enshrined | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bard | det |
| 24 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 harp | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 enshrined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enshrine | past · passive | the popular speech | the harp of the bard | day | 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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