Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 50
Was it the spirit of life or of death that overpowered him?
Who acts: effect, death · What happens: be, overpower · To what, where: spirit, Maiden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (effect, death), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spirit | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirit | det |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 death | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spirit | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 overpowered | nsubj |
| 11 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 death | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overpowered | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | effect | the spirit or death | of life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | overpower | past | death | Maiden | 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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