Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 49
The two poor women, in their humble vehicle drawn by two black oxen, travel fearlessly through the dangerous sunken road and through the darksome forest.
Who acts: two poor women · What happens: draw, travel · To what, where: humble vehicle, dangerous sunken road
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 (two poor women), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 women | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 women | nummod |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 women | amod |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 travel | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vehicle | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vehicle | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 vehicle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vehicle | amod |
| 9 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 women | nmod |
| 10 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 vehicle | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 oxen | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 oxen | nummod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oxen | amod |
| 14 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drawn | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 women | punct |
| 16 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 16 travel | advmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 20 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 road | amod |
| 21 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 road | amod |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travel | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 forest | cc |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 26 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 forest | amod |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 road | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | merchants's humble vehicle not said here | by two black oxen | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travel | infinitive | the two poor women in merchants's humble vehicle | the dangerous sunken road and the darksome forest | fearlessly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through road=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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