Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 29
This cat stood very high in Rudy's favor, for he had taught him to climb.
Who acts: cat, Rudy · What happens: stand, teach, climb, favor · To what, where: cat, Rudy
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 (cat, Rudy), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 favor | case |
| 7 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 favor | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rudy | case |
| 9 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 high | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taught | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 taught | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taught | aux |
| 14 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taught | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 climb | mark |
| 17 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taught | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this cat | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | cat | Rudy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | cat not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | favor | Rudy | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=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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