Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 38
"What will not bend must break," said the Bishop of Borglum
Who acts: Bishop · What happens: not bend, break, say · 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 | _ | 5 bend | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 bend | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bend | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bend | advmod |
| 5 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 break | aux |
| 7 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bend | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bend | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bend | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bishop | det |
| 12 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Borglum | case |
| 14 | Borglum | Borglum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bishop | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bend in a quote | future | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material | ||||||
| 2 | break in a quote | must | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Bishop of Borglum | 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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