Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 101
The children of strength are more powerful, more ethereal, even than we are.
Who acts: children, we · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, we), 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 | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 powerful | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 strength | case |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 children | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 powerful | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 powerful | advmod |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ethereal | punct |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 ethereal | advmod |
| 10 | ethereal | ethereal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powerful | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 are | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 are | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 are | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 powerful | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 powerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the children of strength | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the children of strength not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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