Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 90

He intends to risk his life alone in the roaring waters; but they are to bear witness for him that it is not his fault if Jens Glob stands without reinforcement in the church at Widberg.

Who acts: Olaf, waters, witness, Jens · What happens: intend, risk, be, bear, not be, stand · To what, where: life, roaring waters, witness, fault

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, waters, witness, Jens), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 intends	nsubj
2	intends	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 risk	mark
4	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 intends	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 risk	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 risk	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 waters	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 waters	det
10	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waters	compound
11	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 risk	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 are	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 are	nsubj
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 intends	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bear	mark
17	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 are	xcomp
18	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bear	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bear	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 fault	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fault	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fault	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 fault	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fault	nmod:poss
26	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bear	ccomp
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 stands	mark
28	Jens	Jens	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 stands	nsubj
29	Glob	Glob	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Jens	flat
30	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fault	advcl
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 reinforcement	case
32	reinforcement	reinforcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stands	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 church	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 church	det
35	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reinforcement	nmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 Widberg	case
37	Widberg	Widberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 church	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 intends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	intend	present	Olaf				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	risk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Olaf not said here	Olaf's life	the roaring waters	alone property	vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot
3	does	present	waters = water				tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive	waters = water not said here	witness		for Olaf	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer witness=Stimulus for he=Attribute
5	not is a	present	witness	Olaf's fault			tree rules
6	stand a condition, not said to happen	present	Jens			without reinforcement in the church at Widberg	vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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