Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 116
Did old heroes fight their battles over again?
Who acts: old heroes, heroes · What happens: fight, battle · To what, where: battles
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old heroes, heroes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11284): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fight | aux |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heroes | amod |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 battles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fight | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 fight | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · do-support | old heroes | heroes's battles | again | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | battle | heroes = hero | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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