Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 1

Rudy was just eight years old, when his uncle, who lived on the other side of the mountain, wished to have the boy, as he thought he might obtain a better education with him, and learn something more.

Who acts: Rudy, uncle · What happens: be, live, wish, have, think, obtain · To what, where: other side, boy, better education, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, 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	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	just	just	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 when	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 old	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 uncle	nmod:poss
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 when	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 uncle	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 side	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 side	amod
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountain	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mountain	det
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wished	punct
22	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lived	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wished	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 thought	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 have	advcl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 obtain	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 obtain	aux
33	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thought	ccomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 education	det
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 education	amod
36	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 obtain	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 obtain	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 learn	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 learn	cc
41	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 obtain	conj
42	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 learn	obj
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 learn	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rudy			year	old property	tree rules
2	live	past	Rudy's uncle		the other side of the mountain			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
3	wish	participle	Rudy's uncle not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rudy's uncle not said here	the boy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	uncle					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	obtain	might	uncle	a better education			with Rudy	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Theme
7	learn	infinitive	uncle not said here	something				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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