Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 70
Under the shield of the Pope, the law cannot reach thee; but Jens Glob shall reach thee!"
Who acts: law, Jens · What happens: not reach, reach · To what, where: thee, shield
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 (law, Jens), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 shield | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shield | det |
| 3 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reach | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pope | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pope | det |
| 6 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shield | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shield | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 law | det |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reach | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 reach | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 reach | advmod |
| 12 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 reach | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 reach | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 reach | cc |
| 16 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | nsubj |
| 17 | Glob | Glob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Jens | flat |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 reach | aux |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reach | conj |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 reach | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 reach | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | can | the law | thee | the shield of the Pope | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | shall | Jens | thee | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent thou=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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