Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 30

"Come out on the roof with me," said the cat; and Rudy quite understood him, for the language of fowls, ducks, cats, and dogs, is as easily understood by a young child as his own native tongue.

Who acts: cat, Rudy, young child · What happens: come out, say, understand · To what, where: roof, cat, language · 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 (cat, Rudy, young child), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cat	det
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Rudy	cc
16	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 understood	nsubj
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 understood	advmod
18	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understood	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 language	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 language	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 language	det
23	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 understood	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fowls	case
25	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 language	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ducks	punct
27	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fowls	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cats	punct
29	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fowls	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dogs	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dogs	cc
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 language	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 understood	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 understood	aux:pass
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 easily	advmod
36	easily	easily	ADV	_	37 understood	advmod
37	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 language	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	41 child	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 child	det
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 child	amod
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 understood	obl
42	as	as	ADP	_	46 tongue	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 tongue	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 tongue	amod
45	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 tongue	amod
46	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 child	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out in a quote	infinitive			the roof	with the cat = cat; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the cat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	understand	past	Rudy	cat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	understand	present · passive	a young child as cat's own native tongue	the language of fowls and ducks and cats and dogs not said here		easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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