Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 39
And all forsake the widow; but she holds fast to her God.
Who acts: widow · What happens: forsake, hold · To what, where: widow, God
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 forsake | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 forsake | advmod |
| 3 | forsake | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 widow | det |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forsake | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 holds | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 holds | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 holds | nsubj |
| 9 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forsake | conj |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 holds | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 God | nmod:poss |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 holds | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forsake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | present | the widow | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | widow | widow's God | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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