Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 57
Among them was a young Christian priest, one of those who contemned the gods of the north.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: be, contemn · To what, where: gods
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 7 priest | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 priest | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 priest | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 priest | amod |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 priest | amod |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 priest | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 contemned | nsubj |
| 13 | contemned | contemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gods | det |
| 15 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 contemned | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 north | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gods | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | prisoners = prisoner | among a young Christian priest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contemn | past | the gods of the north | 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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