Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 34
Rudy crept here and ran there, his eyes sparkling with joy, and he stepped so firmly with his iron-tipped mountain shoe, that he left a mark behind him wherever he placed his foot.
Who acts: Rudy, eyes · What happens: creep, run, sparkle, step, tip, leave · To what, where: eyes, mark, foot
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, eyes), 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 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 crept | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | conj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 eyes | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 joy | case |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sparkling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stepped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stepped | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stepped | nsubj |
| 16 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 firmly | advmod |
| 18 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 16 stepped | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 shoe | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tipped | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 iron | punct |
| 23 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 shoe | amod |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shoe | compound |
| 25 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stepped | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 left | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | nsubj |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stepped | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 mark | det |
| 31 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obj |
| 32 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 left | obl |
| 34 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 placed | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 placed | nsubj |
| 36 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 foot | nmod:poss |
| 38 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 placed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | Rudy | here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Rudy not said here | Rudy's eyes | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sparkle | gerund | Rudy's eyes not said here | with joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | step | past | Rudy | with Rudy's tipped mountain shoe; firmly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tip | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | leave | past | Rudy | a mark | behind ice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme behind he=Location | |||
| 7 | place | past | Rudy | ice's foot | wherever property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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