Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 81
Vertigo has many brothers, quite a troop of them, and the Ice Maiden chose the strongest among them.
Who acts: Vertigo, Ice Maiden · What happens: have, choose · To what, where: many brothers
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 (Vertigo, Ice Maiden), 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 | Vertigo | vertigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 troop | punct |
| 6 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 troop | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 troop | det |
| 8 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brothers | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 troop | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chose | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Maiden | det |
| 14 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Maiden | compound |
| 15 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 chose | nsubj |
| 16 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 strongest | det |
| 18 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 chose | xcomp |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 strongest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Vertigo | many brothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the Ice Maiden | strong property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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