Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 119
Sink down into his grave--into oblivion--ye terrible shapes of the times of old!
Who acts: you, ye · What happens: sink down, shape · To what, where: grave
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 (you, ye), 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 | Sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Sink | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 grave | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grave | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sink | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 oblivion | punct |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 oblivion | case |
| 8 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sink | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 shapes | punct |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 shapes | nsubj |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shapes | amod |
| 12 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sink | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 times | det |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shapes | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 old | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | imperative | you not said here | church's grave | into oblivion; down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | shape | ye | time | tree rules |
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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