Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 82
They exercise their power in different ways, and everywhere.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: exercise · To what, where: power, different ways
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 (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 exercise | nsubj |
| 2 | exercise | exercise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exercise | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ways | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ways | amod |
| 7 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 exercise | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 everywhere | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 everywhere | cc |
| 10 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 exercise | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 exercise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exercise | present | brothers = brother | brothers's power | different ways | everywhere property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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