Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 12

He had strong muscular power, as could be seen when he leapt from rock to rock.

Who acts: Rudy · What happens: have, see, leapt · To what, where: strong muscular power, rock

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 power	amod
4	muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 power	amod
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 seen	aux:pass
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 leapt	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leapt	nsubj
13	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 rock	case
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leapt	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 rock	case
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leapt	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Rudy	strong muscular power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	see	could · passive	Rudy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	leapt	past	Rudy		rock	to rock	tree rules

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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