Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 42
Roasted lambs and birds were brought forth, and strong, sweet wine, of which the Turks are forbidden to partake.
What happens: roast, bring, forbid, partake · To what, where: Roasted lambs, Turks
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: 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 | Roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lambs | amod |
| 2 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 birds | cc |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lambs | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wine | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wine | cc |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wine | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strong | punct |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wine | amod |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forbidden | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 forbidden | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Turks | det |
| 18 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 forbidden | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 20 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 brought | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 partake | mark |
| 22 | partake | partake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forbidden | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | Roasted lambs and birds | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | forbid | present · passive | the Turks | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | partake | to-infinitive | tree rules |
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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