Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 190
Have you heard of Kai Lykke, who caused a church to be pulled down, and when the clergyman, Master Martin, thundered from the pulpit about it, he had him put in irons, and sat in judgment upon him, and condemned him to death?
Who acts: you, Kai Lykke, clergyman, Master · What happens: hear, cause, pull down, thunder, have, put · To what, where: church, pulpit, Master, irons, judgment, clergyman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Kai Lykke, clergyman, Master), 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Lykke | case |
| 5 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lykke | compound |
| 6 | Lykke | Lykke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Lykke | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pulled | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pulled | aux:pass |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 caused | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 pulled | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thundered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thundered | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 thundered | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clergyman | det |
| 20 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thundered | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Master | punct |
| 22 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 clergyman | appos |
| 23 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Master | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clergyman | punct |
| 25 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 pulpit | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pulpit | det |
| 28 | pulpit | pulpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thundered | obl |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pulpit | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thundered | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | obj |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 had | xcomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 irons | case |
| 37 | irons | iron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sat | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sat | cc |
| 40 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thundered | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 judgment | case |
| 42 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sat | obl |
| 43 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sat | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 condemned | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 condemned | cc |
| 47 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 condemned | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 death | case |
| 50 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 condemned | obl |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | you | of Kai Lykke | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of lykke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | Kai Lykke | a church | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition church=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull down | to-infinitive · passive | Kai Lykke not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | thunder | past | the clergyman | the pulpit about pulpit | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have | past | clergyman | Master | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put | participle | Master not said here | irons | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in iron=Destination | ||||
| 7 | sit | past | the clergyman not said here | judgment | upon clergyman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in judgment=Location | |||
| 8 | condemn | past | you not said here | clergyman | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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