Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 64
Best leave off thy efforts, knight Jens."
Who acts: Best · What happens: leave off · To what, where: efforts
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 (Best), 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 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 leave | compound:prt |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knight | punct |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 efforts | conj |
| 8 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knight | appos |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | present | Best | thy efforts and knight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme |
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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