Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 27
This was something for Rudy to know, but he learnt more from other sources, particularly from the domestic animals who belonged to the house.
Who acts: This, Rudy, domestic animals · What happens: be, know, learn, belong · To what, where: something, other sources
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 (This, Rudy, domestic animals), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 something | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | cop |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Rudy | case |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 something | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 learnt | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 learnt | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 learnt | nsubj |
| 11 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 learnt | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sources | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sources | amod |
| 15 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 learnt | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 animals | punct |
| 17 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 21 animals | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 animals | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animals | det |
| 20 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sources | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 belonged | nsubj |
| 23 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 animals | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belonged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | something | for Rudy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | learn | past | Rudy | other sources from the domestic animals | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from source=Source | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | the domestic animals | to the house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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