Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 58
The sea rolled wine-tubs to the shore for the bishop's cellar.
Who acts: sea · What happens: roll · To what, where: wine tubs, shore
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 (sea), 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 | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tubs | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wine | punct |
| 6 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 cellar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bishop | det |
| 12 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 bishop | case |
| 14 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | the sea | wine tubs | the shore | for the bishop's cellar | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tub=Theme to shore=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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