Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 71
It is she whose mighty power can crush the traveller to death, and arrest the flowing river in its course.
Who acts: palace · What happens: be, arrest, flow · To what, where: flowing river, course
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 (palace), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crush | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crush | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crush | nsubj |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 power | amod |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crush | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 crush | aux |
| 8 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 traveller | det |
| 10 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crush | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crush | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrest | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arrest | cc |
| 15 | arrest | arrest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 crush | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 17 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 river | amod |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrest | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 course | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 course | nmod:poss |
| 21 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrest | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | palace | to death; crush property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrest | infinitive | palace not said here | the flowing river | palace's course | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 3 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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