Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 80
It was summer, and the Ice Maiden was melting amidst the green verdure, when Vertigo swung himself up and down.
Who acts: commission, Ice Maiden, Vertigo · What happens: be, melt, swing up · To what, where: summer, Vertigo
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 (commission, Ice Maiden, Vertigo), 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 | 3 summer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summer | cop |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 melting | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 melting | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maiden | det |
| 7 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maiden | compound |
| 8 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 melting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 melting | aux |
| 10 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 summer | acl |
| 11 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 14 verdure | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 verdure | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 verdure | amod |
| 14 | verdure | verdure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 melting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swung | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 swung | advmod |
| 17 | Vertigo | Vertigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 swung | nsubj |
| 18 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 verdure | acl:relcl |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 swung | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 swung | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 down | cc |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 up | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | commission | summer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | melt | past · progressive | the Ice Maiden | summer not said here | amidst the green verdure | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient summer=Result | |||
| 3 | swing up | past | Vertigo | Vertigo | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=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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