Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 57
His uncle was a chamois hunter, and a well-known guide.
Who acts: uncle · What happens: be, know · To what, where: chamois hunter
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 (uncle), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hunter | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 5 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunter | compound |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guide | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guide | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 guide | det |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 known | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 guide | amod |
| 13 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunter | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rudy's uncle | a chamois hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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