Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 10
The most icy water could not deter him from swimming; he could twist and turn like a fish.
Who acts: icy water, Rudy · What happens: not deter, swim, twist, turn · To what, where: Rudy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (icy water, Rudy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 icy | advmod |
| 3 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deter | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 deter | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 deter | advmod |
| 7 | deter | deter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deter | obj |
| 9 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 swimming | mark |
| 10 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 deter | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 twist | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 twist | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 twist | aux |
| 14 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deter | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turn | cc |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 twist | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deter | could | the icy water | Rudy | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | the icy water not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | twist | could | Rudy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive | Rudy not said here | like a fish | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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