Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 60
At Borglum it was warm and cheerful in the heated rooms, while cold winter raged without, when a piece of news was brought to the bishop. "
Who acts: Sea · What happens: be, heat, rage, bring · To what, where: Borglum, heated rooms, cold winter, piece, bishop
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Borglum | case |
| 2 | Borglum | Borglum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cheerful | cc |
| 7 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rooms | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rooms | det |
| 10 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rooms | amod |
| 11 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cheerful | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 winter | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 winter | mark |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 winter | amod |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | conj |
| 16 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 winter | acl |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 raged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 piece | det |
| 21 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 news | case |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 piece | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 warm | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 bishop | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bishop | det |
| 28 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sea | Borglum | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Sea not said here | the heated rooms | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | heat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | rage | participle | cold winter not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | past · passive | a piece of news | the bishop | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bishop=Destination |
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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