Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 1
Our scene is laid in Northern Jutland, in the so-called "wild moor."
What happens: lay, call · To what, where: scene, Northern Jutland, wild moor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 scene | nmod:poss |
| 2 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux:pass |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Jutland | case |
| 6 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Jutland | amod |
| 7 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 called | det |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 so | punct |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laid | parataxis |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 moor | punct |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moor | amod |
| 16 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present · passive | Our scene | Northern Jutland | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in jutland=Destination | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | wild moor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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.
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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