Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 13

They play at being masters down there, those spirits of strength!" exclaimed the Ice Maiden; "but the powers of nature are still the rulers."

Who acts: children, spirits, powers · What happens: play, be, exclaim · To what, where: masters, Ice Maiden, rulers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, spirits, powers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 masters	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 masters	cop
5	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obl
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 play	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spirits	punct
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 spirits	det
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 exclaimed	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 strength	case
12	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spirits	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 spirits	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 spirits	punct
15	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 play	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Maiden	det
17	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Maiden	compound
18	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 exclaimed	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 rulers	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 rulers	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 rulers	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 powers	det
23	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rulers	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 nature	case
25	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 powers	nmod
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rulers	cop
27	still	still	ADV	_	29 rulers	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rulers	det
29	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	play	present	children = child		there		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	is	gerund			masters		tree rules
3	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	that spirits of strength	the Ice Maiden			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic
4	is a	present	the powers of nature	the rulers		still	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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