Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 33
Twice had icy winter returned before the bishop welcomed the horsemen and servants back to their home.
Who acts: bishop · What happens: have, return, welcome, servant back · To what, where: horsemen
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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winter | amod |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 welcomed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bishop | det |
| 8 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 welcomed | nsubj |
| 9 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horsemen | det |
| 11 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 welcomed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 servants | cc |
| 13 | servants | servant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 welcomed | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 servants | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 servants | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | winter | twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | welcome | past | the bishop | the horsemen | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme | ||||
| 4 | servant back | present | the bishop not said here | to horsemen's home | 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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