Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 51
And there met them a stalwart knight, with a train of twelve armed followers.
What happens: meet · To what, where: merchants
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 met | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 met | expl |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knight | compound |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 train | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 train | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 train | det |
| 11 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 followers | case |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 followers | nummod |
| 14 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 followers | amod |
| 15 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 train | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | merchants = merchant | there | with a train of twelve armed followers | tree rules |
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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