Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 87
"Seize him, indeed," cried Vertigo; "I cannot do it.
Who acts: you, Vertigo · What happens: seize, cry, not do · To what, where: Vertigo, air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seize | punct |
| 2 | Seize | seize | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Seize | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seize | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Seize | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Seize | parataxis |
| 9 | Vertigo | Vertigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Vertigo | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Vertigo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | can | Vertigo | air | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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