Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 63
"That will avail him little," said the bishop. "
Who acts: That, bishop · What happens: avail, say · To what, where: bishop · 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 (That, bishop), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 avail | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 avail | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 avail | aux |
| 4 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 avail | obj |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 avail | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 avail | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 avail | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bishop | det |
| 11 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avail in a quote | future | That | bishop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bishop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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