Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 47
At the Thing or Assembly at Viborg, the Danish nobles burn the laws of the king.
Who acts: Danish nobles · What happens: burn · To what, where: laws, Thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danish nobles), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Thing | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Thing | det |
| 3 | Thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burn | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 Assembly | cc |
| 5 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Thing | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Viborg | case |
| 7 | Viborg | Viborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Assembly | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Thing | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nobles | det |
| 10 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nobles | amod |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burn | nsubj |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 laws | det |
| 14 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burn | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laws | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | the Danish nobles | the laws of the king | the Thing or Assembly at Viborg | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent law=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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