Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 41
One servant only--an old maid--remained faithful to her; and with the old servant, the widow herself followed the plough; and the crop grew, although the land had been cursed by the Pope and by the bishop.
Who acts: One servant, widow, crop, Pope · What happens: remain, follow, grow, curse · To what, where: plough, land
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 (One servant, widow, crop, Pope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:781): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 servant | nummod |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 servant | advmod |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 maid | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maid | amod |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 servant | appos |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 maid | punct |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remained | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 faithful | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 followed | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 servant | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servant | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 servant | amod |
| 18 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 servant | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 widow | det |
| 21 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | nsubj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 21 widow | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remained | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 plough | det |
| 25 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 grew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 grew | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 crop | det |
| 29 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grew | nsubj |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remained | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cursed | punct |
| 32 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 37 cursed | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 cursed | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 cursed | aux:pass |
| 37 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 grew | advcl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 Pope | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Pope | det |
| 40 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 cursed | obl:agent |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 bishop | cc |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 bishop | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bishop | det |
| 44 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Pope | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | One servant | faithful property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the widow widow | the plough | with the old servant | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | past | the crop | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | curse | past · perfect · passive | the Pope and the bishop | the land | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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