Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 68
Every means was used to restore them to life.
Who acts: Every · What happens: mean, use, restore · To what, where: poles, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Every), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 restore | mark |
| 6 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 restore | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 restore | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Every | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive | poles = pole | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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