Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 45
As a stranger she came into a foreign country, where a strange tongue was spoken and where new customs prevailed.
Who acts: tribunal, new customs · What happens: come, speak, prevail · To what, where: foreign country, strange tongue · 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 (tribunal, new customs), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 stranger | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoken | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 spoken | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tongue | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tongue | amod |
| 14 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoken | aux:pass |
| 16 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prevailed | cc |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 prevailed | advmod |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 customs | amod |
| 20 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 prevailed | nsubj |
| 21 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoken | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | tribunal | a foreign country | as a stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · passive | a strange tongue | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prevail | past | new customs | 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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