Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 9
Then he will come forth in his strength, and strike a blow that shall sound in all the countries of the world.
Who acts: Holger, blow · What happens: come, strike, sound · To what, where: strength, blow, countries
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holger, blow), 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 | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 strength | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 strength | nmod:poss |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strike | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strike | cc |
| 11 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blow | det |
| 13 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strike | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sound | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sound | aux |
| 16 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 countries | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 countries | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 countries | det |
| 20 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 countries | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | Holger | Holger's strength | then | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strength=Location | ||
| 2 | strike | infinitive | Holger not said here | a blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sound | shall | a blow | all countries of the world | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
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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