Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 46
Vertigo might be lurking on the watch, but he dared not approach him.
Who acts: Vertigo · What happens: lurk, approach · To what, where: watch, 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 (Vertigo), 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 | Vertigo | vertigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lurking | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lurking | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lurking | aux |
| 4 | lurking | lurk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 watch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 watch | det |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lurking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 approach | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 approach | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 approach | nsubj |
| 11 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 approach | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dared | advmod |
| 13 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lurking | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 approach | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lurking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lurk | might · progressive | Vertigo | the watch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on watch=Location | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | Vertigo | Rudy | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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