Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 71

Then he writes a letter to his brother-in-law, Olaf Hase, in Sallingland, and prays that knight to meet him on Christmas eve, at mass, in the church at Widberg.

Who acts: law · What happens: write, pray, meet · To what, where: letter, Sallingland, knight, law, Christmas eve

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 writes	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 brother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brother	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Olaf	punct
14	Olaf	Olaf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
15	Hase	Hase	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Olaf	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Sallingland	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Sallingland	case
18	Sallingland	Sallingland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prays	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 prays	cc
21	prays	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writes	conj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 knight	det
23	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prays	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 meet	mark
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 prays	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meet	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 eve	case
28	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 eve	compound
29	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mass	punct
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 mass	case
32	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 church	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 church	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 church	det
36	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 Widberg	case
38	Widberg	Widberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 church	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	law	a letter Olaf	Sallingland	then	to law's brother and law	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme in sallingland=Destination
2	pray	present	law not said here	that knight				tree rules
3	meet	to-infinitive	law not said here	law	Christmas eve		at mass; in the church at Widberg	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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