Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 107
I have slain the bishop and his warriors and priests.
Who acts: I · What happens: slay · To what, where: bishop
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 slain | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slain | aux |
| 3 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bishop | det |
| 5 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slain | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 warriors | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bishop | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 priests | cc |
| 10 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 warriors | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | present · perfect | I | the bishop and bishop's warriors and priests | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bishop=Patient |
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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