Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 48
They fear an attack from the armed followers of the robber-knights.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: fear · To what, where: attack, armed followers
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 (merchants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 attack | det |
| 4 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fear | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 followers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 followers | det |
| 7 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 followers | amod |
| 8 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fear | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 knights | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knights | det |
| 11 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knights | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 robber | punct |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followers | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | merchants = merchant | a attack | the armed followers of the robber knights | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attack=Stimulus |
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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