Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 27
"What has a woman to do with rule?" said the bishop.
Who acts: bishop · What happens: have, do, say · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bishop), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 woman | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rule | case |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bishop | det |
| 14 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | a woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | a woman not said here | with rule | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the bishop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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