Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 126
Then a song was sung by other holy men behind the altar-screen, and the bond of eternal friendship was confirmed.
Who acts: other holy men · What happens: sing, confirm, bond · To what, where: song, bond, eternal friendship
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other holy men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sung | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sung | aux:pass |
| 5 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 8 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sung | obl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 screen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 screen | det |
| 12 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 screen | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 altar | punct |
| 14 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 confirmed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 confirmed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bond | det |
| 18 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 confirmed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 friendship | case |
| 20 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friendship | amod |
| 21 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bond | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 23 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sung | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · passive | other holy men behind the altar screen | a song | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | confirm | past · passive | the bond of eternal friendship | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bond | eternal friendship | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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