Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 40

Rudy thought for a moment of what had been told him, that he and his mother had once lain buried in one of these cold, heart-chilling fissures; but he soon banished such thoughts, and looked upon the story as fabulous, like many other stories which had been told him.

Who acts: Rudy · What happens: think, tell, lie, bury, banish, look · To what, where: Rudy, such thoughts, many other stories · 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 moment	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 moment	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 what	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lain	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lain	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lain	nsubj:pass
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 he	conj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lain	aux
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 lain	advmod
20	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	conj
21	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 lain	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 buried	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	31 fissures	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 fissures	det
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fissures	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cold	punct
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chilling	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 heart	punct
30	chilling	chilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fissures	compound
31	fissures	fissure	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 banished	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 banished	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 banished	nsubj
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 banished	advmod
36	banished	banish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
37	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thoughts	amod
38	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 banished	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 looked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 looked	cc
41	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 story	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 story	det
44	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 looked	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 fabulous	case
46	fabulous	fabulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 looked	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 stories	punct
48	like	like	ADP	_	51 stories	case
49	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 stories	amod
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 stories	amod
51	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 looked	conj
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 told	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 told	aux
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 told	aux:pass
55	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 stories	parataxis
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 told	iobj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Rudy			moment		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive			Rudy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: he=Recipient
3	lie	past · perfect · passive		Rudy			once property	tree rules
4	bury	participle					in one of this cold chilling fissures	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination
5	banish	past	Rudy	such thoughts			soon property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
6	look	past					upon the story; as fabulous	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon story=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		many other stories	Rudy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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