Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 111
The murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests are displayed under a black canopy, surrounded by candelabra decked with crape.
What happens: murder, display, surround, deck · To what, where: murdered bishop, black canopy, candelabra
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bishop | det |
| 2 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bishop | amod |
| 3 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 warriors | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 warriors | det |
| 6 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warriors | amod |
| 7 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bishop | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 priests | cc |
| 9 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 warriors | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 displayed | aux:pass |
| 11 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 canopy | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 canopy | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 canopy | amod |
| 15 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 displayed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surrounded | punct |
| 17 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 displayed | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 candelabra | case |
| 19 | candelabra | candelabra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 20 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 candelabra | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 crape | case |
| 22 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 decked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 displayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | display | present · passive | the murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests | a black canopy | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | deck | participle | candelabra not said here | with crape | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crape=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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