Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 74
The war trumpet sounded; riding upon the rainbow, came the gods, clad in steel, to fight their last battle on the last battle-field.
Who acts: war trumpet, gods · What happens: sound, ride, come, clad, fight, battle · To what, where: gods, steel, last battle, last battle field
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war trumpet, gods), 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 | 3 trumpet | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trumpet | compound |
| 3 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 riding | punct |
| 6 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sounded | advcl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 rainbow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rainbow | det |
| 9 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 riding | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clad | punct |
| 15 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gods | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 steel | case |
| 17 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clad | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fight | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fight | mark |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 battle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 battle | amod |
| 23 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fight | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 field | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 field | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 field | amod |
| 27 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 field | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 battle | punct |
| 29 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fight | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the war trumpet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | the war trumpet not said here | upon the rainbow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the gods | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location god=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clad | participle | the gods not said here | steel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | gods's last battle | the last battle field | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | battle | gods = god | nom battle «act transitive»: 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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