Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 104
And the sword leaps from the scabbard, and Olaf Hase deals a blow that makes the panel of the church door, which Jens Glob hastily closes between them, fly in fragments.
Who acts: sword, Olaf, blow, Jens · What happens: leap, deal, make, close, fly · To what, where: scabbard, blow, panel, fragments
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: who acts (sword, Olaf, blow, Jens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 leaps | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaps | nsubj |
| 4 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 scabbard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scabbard | det |
| 7 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaps | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deals | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deals | cc |
| 10 | Olaf | Olaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 deals | nsubj |
| 11 | Hase | Hase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Olaf | flat |
| 12 | deals | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaps | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blow | det |
| 14 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deals | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 blow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 panel | det |
| 18 | panel | panel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 door | compound |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 panel | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 closes | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 closes | obj |
| 25 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 closes | nsubj |
| 26 | Glob | Glob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Jens | flat |
| 27 | hastily | hastily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Jens | list |
| 28 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 panel | parataxis |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 closes | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fly | punct |
| 32 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 closes | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 fragments | case |
| 34 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fly | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | present | the sword | the scabbard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from scabbard=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | deal | present | Olaf | a blow | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a blow | the panel of the church door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset panel=Product | ||||
| 4 | close | present | Jens | the panel of the church door | between candles = candle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 5 | fly | infinitive | Jens not said here | fragments | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fragment=Location |
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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