Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 58

Rudy was only a year old when his father died, and his mother was anxious to return with her child to her own relations, who lived in the Bernese Oberland.

Who acts: Rudy, father, mother, own relations · What happens: be, die, return, live · To what, where: Bernese Oberland

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 (Rudy, father, mother, own relations), 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	6 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 year	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 died	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 anxious	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 anxious	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anxious	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 anxious	cop
16	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 return	mark
18	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 anxious	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 child	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 child	nmod:poss
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 return	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 relations	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 relations	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 relations	amod
25	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 return	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lived	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lived	nsubj
28	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 relations	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 Oberland	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Oberland	det
31	Bernese	Bernese	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Oberland	compound
32	Oberland	Oberland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lived	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rudy		year	old property	tree rules
2	die	past	Rudy's father				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	Rudy's mother			anxious property	tree rules
4	return	to-infinitive	Rudy's mother not said here			with mother's child; to mother's own relations result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to relation=Result
5	live	past	mother's own relations	the Bernese Oberland			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in oberland=Location

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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