Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 48

They brought him greetings from his grandfather's house, even from two hens, the only birds of the household; but Rudy was not intimate with them.

Who acts: swallows, Rudy · What happens: bring, not be · To what, where: greetings, Rudy, house

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 (swallows, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandfather	nmod:poss
7	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 grandfather	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hens	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 hens	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 hens	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hens	nummod
14	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 house	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 birds	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 birds	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 birds	amod
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hens	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 household	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 household	det
21	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 birds	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 intimate	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 intimate	cc
24	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 intimate	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 intimate	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 intimate	advmod
27	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brought	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 intimate	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	swallows = swallow	greetings	Rudy	Rudy's grandfather's house from two hens and the only birds of the household			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination greeting=Theme
2	not is	past	Rudy					with swallows = swallow; intimate 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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