Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 26

In the days of knightly castles, when the strongest fist held the scales of justice, when only might was right, and a peasant and a dog were of equal importance, where did the Bird of Song find shelter and protection?

Who acts: strongest fist, peasant · What happens: hold, be, do, find · To what, where: scales, Bird, shelter

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: who acts (strongest fist, peasant), 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	_	3 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 held	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 castles	case
5	knightly	knightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 castles	amod
6	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 held	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fist	det
10	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 fist	amod
11	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	nsubj
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scales	det
14	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 held	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 justice	case
16	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scales	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 right	mark
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 right	advmod
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 right	aux
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 scales	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 importance	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 importance	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 peasant	det
26	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 importance	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dog	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dog	det
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 peasant	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 importance	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 importance	case
32	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 importance	amod
33	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 did	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 did	advmod
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 find	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Bird	det
38	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 did	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Song	case
40	Song	Song	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Bird	nmod
41	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 importance	parataxis
42	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 find	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 protection	cc
44	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shelter	conj
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the strongest fist	the scales of justice	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme
2	is	might				right property	tree rules
3	is	past	a peasant and a dog			of equal importance	tree rules
4	do	past		the Bird of Song			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
5	find	present		shelter and protection			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic

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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