Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 34
Millions of Alpine roses have I snapped and broken off; not a root have I spared.
Who acts: root, I · What happens: snap, break off, have, spare · To what, where: Millions
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 (root, I), 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 | Millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 roses | case |
| 3 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 roses | amod |
| 4 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Millions | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snapped | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 snapped | nsubj |
| 7 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 broken | cc |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 snapped | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 broken | compound:prt |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 root | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 root | det |
| 14 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snapped | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spared | nsubj |
| 17 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present · perfect · passive | Millions of Alpine roses | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break off | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | a root | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spare | participle | I | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
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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