Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 108
They will have no word more to say in the matter, nor will I speak again of all the wrong that my mother has endured."
Who acts: priests, I · What happens: have, say, speak, endure · To what, where: word, matter, mother · 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: who acts (priests, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 word | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 more | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 matter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 speak | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 speak | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 speak | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 speak | nsubj |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 speak | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 wrong | mark |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 wrong | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wrong | det |
| 21 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speak | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 endured | mark |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 endured | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 endured | aux |
| 26 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wrong | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | priests = priest | no word | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the matter | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in matter=Manner | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | future | I | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | endure | present · perfect · passive | my mother | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance |
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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