Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 55

Rudy's father had been a postilion, and the large dog which now lived in his grandfather's cottage had always followed him on his journeys over the Simplon to the lake of Geneva.

Who acts: father, large dog, postilion, grandfather · What happens: be, live, follow, journey · To what, where: postilion, cottage, large dog, journeys, Simplon

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 (father, large dog, postilion, grandfather), 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	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Rudy	case
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 postilion	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 postilion	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 postilion	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 postilion	det
7	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 followed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 followed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 followed	nsubj:pass
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	nsubj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lived	advmod
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dog	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 cottage	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grandfather	nmod:poss
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cottage	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 grandfather	case
20	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 followed	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 followed	advmod
23	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 postilion	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 followed	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 journeys	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 journeys	nmod:poss
27	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 followed	obl
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 Simplon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Simplon	det
30	Simplon	Simplon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 journeys	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 lake	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lake	det
33	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 followed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Geneva	case
35	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 lake	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 postilion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	Rudy's father	a postilion				tree rules
2	live	past	the large dog		Rudy's grandfather's cottage	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
3	follow	past · perfect · passive	a postilion not said here	the large dog	grandfather's journeys over the Simplon		to the lake of Geneva; always property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
4	journey		grandfather		the Simplon			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent over=place

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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