Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 138
On thy glowing canvas let them be painted--the dark legends of the rough hard times that are past!
Who acts: you, canvas, rough hard times · What happens: glow, let, paint, be · To what, where: canvas, glowing canvas
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, canvas, rough hard times), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 canvas | case |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 canvas | nmod:poss |
| 3 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 canvas | amod |
| 4 | canvas | canva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | obl |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 painted | aux:pass |
| 8 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 legends | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 legends | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legends | amod |
| 12 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 times | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 times | det |
| 15 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 legends | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 past | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 past | cop |
| 20 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | canvas = canva | thy glowing canvas | the dark legends of the rough hard times obl | tree rules | ||
| 3 | paint | infinitive · passive | canvas = canva not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the rough hard times | past property | 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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