Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 24

Rudy did not much like trade; he loved to climb the mountains, or to sit by his grandfather and listen to his tales of olden times, or of the people in Meyringen, the place of his birth.

Who acts: Rudy, olden times · What happens: do, love, climb, sit, listen, tell · To what, where: mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rudy, olden times), 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	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 trade	case
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 climb	mark
11	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 loved	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountains	det
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 climb	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 sit	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sit	mark
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 loved	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 grandfather	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 grandfather	nmod:poss
20	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 listen	cc
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 tales	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tales	nmod:poss
25	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 listen	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 times	case
27	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 times	amod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tales	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 people	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 people	cc
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 people	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tales	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Meyringen	case
35	Meyringen	Meyringen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 people	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 place	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Meyringen	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 birth	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 birth	nmod:poss
41	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 place	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Rudy		like trade	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	love	past	Rudy			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here	the mountains		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme
4	sit	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here		by Rudy's grandfather	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grandfather=Location
5	listen	infinitive	Rudy not said here		to grandfather's tales of olden times or the people in Meyringen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme
6	tell		olden times			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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