Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 20

But the boy, who was named Rudy, looked with still greater pleasure and longing at some old fire-arms which hung upon the rafters, under the ceiling of the room.

Who acts: boy, old fire arms · What happens: name, look, long, hang · To what, where: boy, old fire arms, rafters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, old fire arms), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 named	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 named	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 named	aux:pass
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boy	acl:relcl
8	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 named	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Rudy	punct
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 pleasure	case
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 greater	advmod
13	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 pleasure	amod
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 longing	cc
16	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 pleasure	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	22 arms	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 arms	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 arms	amod
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arms	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 fire	punct
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 longing	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 arms	acl:relcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 rafters	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rafters	det
27	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ceiling	punct
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 ceiling	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ceiling	det
31	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ceiling	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the boy			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	past	the boy			with greater pleasure	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	long	gerund	the boy not said here		some old fire arms		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	hang	past	some old fire arms		the rafters		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rafter=Location

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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