Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 74
The marsh will bear horse and rider, the bishop with his priests and armed men.
Who acts: marsh · What happens: bear · To what, where: horse
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 (marsh), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marsh | det |
| 2 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rider | cc |
| 7 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bishop | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bishop | det |
| 10 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | appos |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 priests | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 priests | nmod:poss |
| 13 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bishop | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 men | cc |
| 15 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 priests | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | future | the marsh | horse and rider | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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