--- title: The horned helmets came from costumes for an opera in 1876; no Vikin… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: The horned helmets came from costumes for an opera in 1876; no Viking-age helmet with horns has ever been found, and horns would just be something for an enemy to grab. Who acts: horned helmets, horns. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horned helmets, horns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:2 # text = The horned helmets came from costumes for an opera in 1876; no Viking-age helmet with horns has ever been found, and horns would just be something for an enemy to grab. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 horned horned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 costumes costume NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 opera opera NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1876 1876 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 14 Viking viking NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the horned helmets | | | costumes for a opera in 1876 | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from costume=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | no age helmet with horns | | | ever | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | would | horns | something | | | | for a enemy | tree rules | | 4 | **grab** | to-infinitive | horns *not said here* | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/1/) - next →: [Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/)