Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 35
The snow-flakes chase each other, the ice cracks, the storm rules without, for he has the might, he is lord--but not the LORD OF ALL.
Who acts: snow flakes, ice · What happens: chase, crack, have, lor · To what, where: each, storm rules, ice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow flakes, ice), 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 | 4 flakes | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flakes | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chase | nsubj |
| 5 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 chase | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cracks | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ice | det |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cracks | nsubj |
| 11 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chase | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rules | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rules | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rules | compound |
| 15 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cracks | obl |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 cracks | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 has | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cracks | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 might | det |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 has | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lord | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lord | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lord | aux:pass |
| 26 | lord | lor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chase | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 LORD | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 LORD | cc |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 LORD | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lord | obl |
| 32 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 33 ALL | case |
| 33 | ALL | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 LORD | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | the snow flakes | each | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crack | present | the ice | the storm rules | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | ice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lor | present · passive | ice | the LORD of ALL obl | 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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