Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 113
The incense rises in clouds, and the monks chant the funeral hymn.
Who acts: incense, monks · What happens: rise, chant · To what, where: clouds, funeral hymn
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 (incense, monks), 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 | 2 incense | det |
| 2 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rises | nsubj |
| 3 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 clouds | case |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rises | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chant | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chant | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 monks | det |
| 9 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chant | nsubj |
| 10 | chant | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rises | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hymn | det |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hymn | compound |
| 13 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chant | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the incense | clouds | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloud=Location | ||||
| 2 | chant | present | the monks | the funeral hymn | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hymn=Topic |
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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