Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 89
Rudy knew each ice-clad peak, and he continued his course towards the Schreckhorn, with its white powdered stone finger raised high in the air.
Who acts: Rudy, peak · What happens: know, continue, powder, raise · To what, where: ice clad peak, course, white powdered stone finger, air
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, peak), 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 peak | det |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peak | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ice | punct |
| 6 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peak | amod |
| 7 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 continued | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 course | nmod:poss |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 Schreckhorn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Schreckhorn | det |
| 16 | Schreckhorn | Schreckhorn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 finger | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 finger | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 finger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 finger | amod |
| 21 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 finger | amod |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finger | compound |
| 23 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obl |
| 24 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 finger | acl |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 raised | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 air | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 air | det |
| 28 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 raised | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Rudy | each ice clad peak | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer peak=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | peak | peak's course | towards the Schreckhorn; with Schreckhorn's white powdered stone finger | tree rules | |||
| 3 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | raise | participle | Schreckhorn's white powdered stone finger not said here | the air | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in air=Destination |
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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