Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 110
And four days afterwards the bells toll for a funeral in the convent of Borglum.
Who acts: bells · What happens: toll
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 (bells), 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 | _ | 7 toll | cc |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 toll | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 toll | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bells | det |
| 6 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 toll | nsubj |
| 7 | toll | toll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 funeral | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 funeral | det |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toll | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 convent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 convent | det |
| 13 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 funeral | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Borglum | case |
| 15 | Borglum | Borglum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 convent | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 toll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toll | present | the bells | day | for a funeral in the convent of Borglum; afterwards property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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