Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 16
It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over nature.
Who acts: valley, power · What happens: be, give · To what, where: power, mastery, man, nature
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 (valley, power), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 power | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 power | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 power | det |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 power | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gives | nsubj |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 power | acl:relcl |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mastery | det |
| 11 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 nature | case |
| 13 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | valley | the power | of thought | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | present | the power | the mastery | man | nature | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient mastery=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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