Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 11

It is hardly known how, but the people say--yes, people say a great many things when they are frightened or want to frighten others--they say that the old dead choir-men glide silently past us into the church, where mass is sung.

Who acts: people, old dead choir men · What happens: know, say, frighten, want, glide, sing · To what, where: staircase, great many things, people, others, church, mass · 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 (people, old dead choir men), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 known	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux:pass
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 known	advmod
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 known	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 known	parataxis
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	15 say	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yes	punct
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 things	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	obj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 frightened	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 frightened	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 frightened	aux:pass
23	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 say	advcl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 want	cc
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 frightened	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 frighten	mark
27	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 want	xcomp
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 frighten	obj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
31	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 known	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 glide	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 men	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 men	amod
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 men	amod
36	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 men	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 choir	punct
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 glide	nsubj
39	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 say	ccomp
40	silently	silently	ADV	_	39 glide	advmod
41	past	past	ADP	_	42 us	case
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 glide	obl
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 church	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 church	det
45	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 glide	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sung	punct
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 sung	advmod
48	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sung	nsubj:pass
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 sung	aux:pass
50	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 church	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		staircase		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	the people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	people	a great many things			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	frighten	present · passive		people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	want	present					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	frighten not said to happen	to-infinitive		others			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	glide	present	the old dead choir men		the church	past us; silently property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past we=Source into church=Trajectory
9	sing speech: express	present · passive		mass			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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