Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 84
The church is the judgment hall; the altar is the council table.
Who acts: church, altar · What happens: be · To what, where: judgment hall, council table
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 (church, altar), 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 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hall | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 5 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | compound |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 table | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 altar | det |
| 9 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 table | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 table | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 12 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 table | compound |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the church | the judgment hall and the council table | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the altar | the council table | tree rules |
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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