Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 23
Then the cat jumped down and ran away; he did not wish Rudy to see that there were tears in his eyes.
Who acts: cat, tears · What happens: jump down, run away, not wish, see, be · To what, where: Rudy · 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 (cat, tears), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 14 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wish | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tears | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump down | past | the cat | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | the cat not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | cat | Rudy | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rudy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | cat not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | tears in Rudy's eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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