Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 50
He was born in the canton of Valais, and brought to his grandfather over the mountains.
What happens: bear, bring · To what, where: Rudy, canton, grandfather, mountains
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: 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 | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 canton | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canton | det |
| 6 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Valais | case |
| 8 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 canton | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 grandfather | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 14 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 mountains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountains | det |
| 17 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Rudy | the canton of Valais | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Rudy's grandfather | the mountains | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to grandfather=Destination |
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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