Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 8
The priests waved the censers, while the bride and bridegroom joined their hands and received the blessing of the bishop.
Who acts: priests, bride · What happens: wave, join, receive, bless · To what, where: censers, hands, blessing, bishop
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests, bride), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priests | det |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 censers | det |
| 5 | censers | censer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joined | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 joined | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bridegroom | cc |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bride | conj |
| 12 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | parataxis |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 joined | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 received | cc |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 joined | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blessing | det |
| 18 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bishop | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bishop | det |
| 21 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blessing | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the priests | the censers | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent censer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | past | the bride and bridegroom | priests's hands | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the bride and bridegroom not said here | the blessing of the bishop | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bless | the bishop | nom blessing «act 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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