Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 115
It is heard in the dark night by the frightened husbandman, driving by in the heavy sandy road past the convent of Borglum.
Who acts: frightened husbandman · What happens: hear, drive · To what, where: incense
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 (frightened husbandman), 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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux:pass |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 husbandman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 husbandman | det |
| 10 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 husbandman | amod |
| 11 | husbandman | husbandman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 driving | punct |
| 13 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 17 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 road | amod |
| 18 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 road | amod |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driving | obl |
| 20 | past | past | ADP | _ | 22 convent | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 convent | det |
| 22 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 road | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Borglum | case |
| 24 | Borglum | Borglum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 convent | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · passive | the frightened husbandman | incense | night | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | the frightened husbandman not said here | by the heavy sandy road past the convent of Borglum | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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