Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 191
Yes, and the clergyman was obliged to bow his head to the stroke.
What happens: oblige, bow · To what, where: clergyman, head, stroke
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: 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 obliged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 obliged | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clergyman | det |
| 5 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bow | mark |
| 9 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 obliged | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bow | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stroke | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stroke | det |
| 14 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bow | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the clergyman | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | bow | to-infinitive | clergyman's head | the stroke | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to stroke=Recipient |
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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