Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 85

Vertigo and the Ice Maiden clutch at human beings, as the polypus seizes upon all that comes within its reach.

Who acts: polypus, that · What happens: seize, come

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 (polypus, that), 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	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clutch	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clutch	det
4	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Maiden	compound
5	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 clutch	compound
6	clutch	clutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vertigo	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 beings	case
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beings	amod
9	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clutch	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seizes	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 seizes	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 polypus	det
13	polypus	polypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seizes	nsubj
14	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Vertigo	parataxis
15	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	18 comes	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 comes	det:predet
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 seizes	advcl
19	within	within	ADP	_	21 reach	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 reach	nmod:poss
21	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Vertigo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	present	the polypus						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	that					within polypus's reach	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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