Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 74
Mine is the power to seize and crush," she cried. "
Who acts: Mine, laughter · What happens: be, seize, crush, cry · To what, where: power
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 (Mine, laughter), 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 | Mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 power | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 power | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 power | det |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seize | mark |
| 6 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 power | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crush | cc |
| 8 | crush | crush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 seize | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crush | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mine | the power | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | crush | infinitive | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | laughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.
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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