Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 53

Then one of them mentioned Thyland in Denmark, and spoke of her sorrows, of her woes, which were soon to cease, for so Divine Providence had willed it.

Who acts: one, Divine, Denmark · What happens: mention, speak, cease, will, sorrow · To what, where: Thyland, Denmark, woes, place · 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 (one, Divine, Denmark), 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	5 mentioned	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mentioned	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Thyland	Thyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mentioned	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Denmark	case
8	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mentioned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spoke	cc
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mentioned	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sorrows	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sorrows	nmod:poss
14	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spoke	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woes	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 woes	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 woes	nmod:poss
18	woes	woe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sorrows	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cease	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 cease	obj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cease	aux
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 cease	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 cease	mark
24	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 woes	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 willed	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 willed	mark
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 willed	advmod
28	Divine	Divine	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 willed	nsubj
29	Providence	Providence	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Divine	flat
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 willed	aux
31	willed	will	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 cease	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 willed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mentioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	past	one of merchants	Thyland	Denmark	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thyland=Topic
2	speak speech: other	past	one of merchants not said here				of Denmark's sorrows and Denmark's woes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cease	past		Denmark's woes			soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality which=Eventuality
4	will	past · perfect	Divine	place				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	sorrow		Denmark					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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