Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 80
Towards the church they ride, as fast as they may through the storm.
Who acts: wind · What happens: ride · To what, where: storm
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 (wind), 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 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 church | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 church | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ride | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ride | nsubj |
| 5 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fast | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ride | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 may | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 may | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fast | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 storm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storm | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ride | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | wind | the storm | towards the church; fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards church=Trajectory |
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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