Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 39
He was often on the sloping roof with the cat, or on the tops of high trees.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: slope, be · To what, where: sloping roof
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 roof | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 roof | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 roof | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 6 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 roof | amod |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roof | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tops | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 tops | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tops | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tops | det |
| 15 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 roof | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trees | amod |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tops | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 roof | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Rudy | the sloping roof or the tops of high trees | with the cat; often property | tree rules |
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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