Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 89

There he dismisses his warriors, presents them with their horses and harness, and gives them leave to ride home and greet his wife.

Who acts: Olaf · What happens: dismiss, present, give, leave, ride, greet · To what, where: warriors, wife

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 (Olaf), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 dismisses	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dismisses	nsubj
3	dismisses	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 warriors	nmod:poss
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dismisses	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 presents	punct
7	presents	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dismisses	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 presents	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 horses	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horses	nmod:poss
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 presents	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 harness	cc
13	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horses	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gives	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gives	cc
16	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dismisses	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gives	iobj
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gives	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ride	mark
20	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 leave	xcomp
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 ride	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 greet	cc
23	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ride	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 greet	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dismisses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dismiss	present	Olaf	Olaf's warriors		there		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme
2	present	present	Olaf not said here	warriors = warrior			with warriors's horses and harness	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with horse=Theme
3	give	present	Olaf not said here		warriors = warrior			tree rules
4	leave	infinitive	Olaf not said here					tree rules
5	ride	to-infinitive	Olaf not said here				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	greet speech: greet	infinitive	Olaf not said here		Olaf's wife			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

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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