Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 18

A bard, who was a kind of musician as well as warrior, and who had been with the Viking in his expedition, and knew what to sing about, gave them one of his best songs, in which they heard all their warlike deeds praised, and every wonderful action brought forward with honor.

Who acts: bard, wrongs, wonderful action, Viking · What happens: be, sing, give, hear, praise, bring forward · To what, where: kind, one, wrongs, warlike deeds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bard, wrongs, wonderful action, Viking), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bard	det
2	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 kind	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bard	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 musician	case
9	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 warrior	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 as	fixed
12	as	as	ADP	_	10 as	fixed
13	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 knew	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 knew	cop
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 Viking	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Viking	det
21	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 knew	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 expedition	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 expedition	nmod:poss
24	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Viking	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 sing	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sing	mark
30	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 knew	xcomp
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 sing	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	iobj
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 gave	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 songs	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 songs	nmod:poss
38	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 songs	amod
39	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 one	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 heard	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 heard	obl
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 heard	nsubj
44	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gave	parataxis
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 deeds	det:predet
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 deeds	nmod:poss
47	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 deeds	amod
48	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 heard	obj
49	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 deeds	acl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 brought	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 brought	cc
52	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 action	det
53	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 action	amod
54	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 brought	nsubj
55	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 heard	conj
56	forward	forward	ADV	_	55 brought	advmod
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 honor	case
58	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 brought	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a bard	a kind as warrior		of musician	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	a bard			with the Viking in Viking's expedition; know property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	a bard not said here			about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
4	give	past	a bard not said here	one of Viking's best songs	wrongs = wrong		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient one=Theme
5	hear	past	wrongs = wrong	wrongs's warlike deeds			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus
6	praise	participle		wrongs's warlike deeds not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	bring forward	past	every wonderful action			with honor; forward property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
8	sing		Viking				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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