Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 40
But, more frequently, higher still on the ridges of the rocks where puss never came.
Who acts: puss · What happens: not come
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 (puss), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 higher | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 frequently | advmod |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 6 higher | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 higher | punct |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 higher | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ridges | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ridges | det |
| 10 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 higher | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ridges | nmod |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 came | advmod |
| 15 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past | puss | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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