Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 44
Then did the widow yoke the last two oxen that remained to her to a wagon, and mounted up on the wagon, with her old servant, and travelled away across the heath out of the Danish land.
Who acts: last two oxen · What happens: do, remain, mount up, travel away · To what, where: widow yoke, tribunal, wagon, heath
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 (last two oxen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 yoke | det |
| 4 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yoke | compound |
| 5 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oxen | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 oxen | amod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 oxen | nummod |
| 9 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 yoke | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 remained | nsubj |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 oxen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remained | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wagon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wagon | det |
| 16 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mounted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mounted | cc |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 mounted | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 wagon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wagon | det |
| 23 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 servant | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 servant | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servant | nmod:poss |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 servant | amod |
| 28 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 travelled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 travelled | cc |
| 31 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 travelled | advmod |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 heath | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 heath | det |
| 35 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 travelled | obl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 land | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 land | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 land | det |
| 39 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 land | amod |
| 40 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 travelled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the widow yoke the last two oxen | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoke=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the last two oxen | tribunal | to a wagon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | mount up | participle | the wagon | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wagon=Destination | |||||
| 4 | travel away | past | the heath | out the Danish land; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across heath=Trajectory |
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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