Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 14
The sea washes away the blood that has flowed from the cloven skulls.
Who acts: sea · What happens: wash away, flow · To what, where: blood, cloven skulls
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 (sea), 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 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 washes | nsubj |
| 3 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 washes | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blood | det |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 washes | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 flowed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 flowed | aux |
| 9 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blood | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 skulls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skulls | det |
| 12 | cloven | cloven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skulls | amod |
| 13 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flowed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 washes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash away | present | the sea | the blood | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | |||
| 2 | flow | present · perfect · passive | the blood | the cloven skulls | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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