Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 57

Rudy listened eagerly, but without fear, for he knew not what fear meant; and while he listened, he fancied he could hear the roaring of the spectral herd.

Who acts: Rudy, fear, spectral herd · What happens: listen, not know, mean, fancy, hear, roar · To what, where: roaring

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, fear, spectral herd), 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 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	2 listened	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fear	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 fear	cc
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 fear	case
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 knew	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 knew	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 knew	obj
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meant	nsubj
15	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fancied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fancied	cc
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 listened	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 listened	nsubj
20	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fancied	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 listened	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fancied	nsubj
23	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fancied	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roaring	det
28	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 herd	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 herd	det
31	spectral	spectral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 herd	amod
32	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roaring	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Rudy		without fear; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	not know	past	Rudy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	mean	past	fear			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	listen	past	Rudy			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	fancy	past	Rudy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hear	could	Rudy	the roaring of the spectral herd		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roaring=Stimulus
7	roar		the spectral herd			nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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