Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 96

They have great love for flowers, for butterflies, and for mankind; and from among the latter they had chosen little Rudy. "

Who acts: Alps · What happens: have, choose · To what, where: great love, little Rudy, latter

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 (Alps), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 love	amod
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 butterflies	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 butterflies	case
9	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flowers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mankind	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mankind	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 mankind	case
13	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 chosen	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chosen	cc
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 latter	case
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 latter	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 latter	det
19	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chosen	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 chosen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 chosen	aux
22	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 have	parataxis
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Rudy	amod
24	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 chosen	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Alps = alp	great love				for flowers and butterflies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient
2	choose	past · perfect	Alps = alp	little Rudy		the latter			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rudy=Theme from latter=Source

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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