Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 43
Now will I lay the hand of the Pope upon thee, to summon thee before the tribunal that shall condemn thee!"
Who acts: I, tribunal · What happens: lay, summon, condemn · To what, where: hand, thee
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 (I, tribunal), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pope | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pope | det |
| 9 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 summon | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 summon | mark |
| 14 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | conj |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 summon | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 tribunal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tribunal | det |
| 18 | tribunal | tribunal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summon | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 condemn | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 condemn | aux |
| 21 | condemn | condemn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tribunal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 condemn | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | future | I | the hand of the Pope | thee | now | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon thou=Destination | ||
| 2 | summon | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | before the tribunal | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 3 | condemn | shall | the tribunal | thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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