Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 31

What writest thou on yonder smooth parchment, sealing it with thy seal, and intrusting it to the horsemen and servants, who ride away, far away, to the city of the Pope?

Who acts: horsemen · What happens: write, seal, intrust, ride away · To what, where: thou, smooth parchment, parchment

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 (horsemen), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 writest	obj
2	writest	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 writest	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 parchment	case
5	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	6 smooth	advmod
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parchment	amod
7	parchment	parchment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writest	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sealing	punct
9	sealing	seal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 writest	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sealing	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 seal	case
12	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 seal	nmod:poss
13	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sealing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 intrusting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 intrusting	cc
16	intrusting	intrust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sealing	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 intrusting	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 horsemen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horsemen	det
20	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 intrusting	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 servants	cc
22	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 horsemen	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ride	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 ride	nsubj
25	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 horsemen	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 ride	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 away	punct
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 away	advmod
29	away	away	ADV	_	25 ride	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 city	punct
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 city	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 city	det
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 intrusting	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Pope	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Pope	det
36	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 city	nmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 writest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	present		thou	smooth parchment		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient thou=Topic
2	seal	gerund		parchment		with thy seal	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with seal=Instrument
3	intrust	gerund		parchment		to the horsemen and servants; to the city of the Pope	tree rules
4	ride away	present	the horsemen and servants			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «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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