Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 34

"Come out on the roof with me, little Rudy," was the first thing he heard the cat say, and Rudy understood him. "

Who acts: you, little Rudy, Rudy, cat · What happens: come out, be, hear, say, understand · To what, where: roof, first thing, cat · 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 (you, little Rudy, Rudy, cat), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	_	11 Rudy	punct
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Rudy	amod
11	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thing	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Rudy	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Rudy	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 understood	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 understood	cc
25	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 understood	nsubj
26	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 understood	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the roof	with the cat = cat; out property	tree rules
2	is a	past	little Rudy	the first thing			tree rules
3	hear	past	Rudy	the cat			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	the cat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	understand	past	Rudy	cat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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