Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 3
Rudy had many to say farewell to, as well as his grandfather.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: have, say, farewell · To what, where: many · 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), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 many | advcl |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 farewell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grandfather | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 13 grandfather | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rudy | many | Rudy's grandfather obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | farewell | infinitive | tree rules |
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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