Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 34
They came from Rome with a papal decree--a ban, or bull, against the widow who had dared to offend the pious bishop. "
Who acts: horsemen, widow · What happens: come, dare, offend · To what, where: Rome, pious bishop
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, widow), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Rome | case |
| 4 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 decree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 decree | det |
| 7 | papal | papal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 decree | amod |
| 8 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 ban | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ban | det |
| 11 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 decree | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bull | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 bull | cc |
| 14 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 decree | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 widow | punct |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 widow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 widow | det |
| 18 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 dared | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dared | aux |
| 21 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 widow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 offend | mark |
| 23 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dared | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bishop | det |
| 25 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bishop | amod |
| 26 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offend | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | horsemen = horseman | Rome | with a papal decree and a ban or bull | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rome=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dare | past · perfect | the widow | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | offend | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | the pious bishop | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bishop=Experiencer |
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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