Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 98
"Greater and stronger than he have I seized!" said the Ice Maiden.
Who acts: Rudy, Ice Maiden · What happens: have, seize, say · 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 (Rudy, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stronger | punct |
| 2 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 stronger | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stronger | cc |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stronger | advcl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seized | nsubj |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stronger | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stronger | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Rudy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seize in a quote | participle | the Ice Maiden = maiden | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Ice Maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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