Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 82
Borglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so, however hard he may ride.
Who acts: bishop, Olaf, church · What happens: reach, scarce, do, ride · To what, where: church
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 (bishop, Olaf, church), 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 | Borglum | Borglum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bishop | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Borglum | case |
| 3 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 scarce | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 Olaf | cc |
| 9 | Olaf | Olaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 scarce | nsubj |
| 10 | Hase | Hase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Olaf | flat |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 scarce | aux |
| 12 | scarce | scarce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reaches | parataxis |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 scarce | xcomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ride | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 17 hard | advmod |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ride | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ride | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ride | aux |
| 20 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 scarce | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Borglum's bishop | the church | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent church=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scarce | future | Olaf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | Olaf not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride | may | church | hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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