Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 60
After an hour had passed, they told Rudy that it was all over, and he might go to sleep; and, fatigued with his long walk, he readily slept at the word of command.
Who acts: hour, asunder, roaring, Rudy · What happens: pass, tell, be, go, fatigue, sleep · To what, where: Rudy, sleep, word, command · 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 (hour, asunder, roaring, Rudy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4052): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 over | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 over | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 over | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 over | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 told | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 over | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 slept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 slept | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fatigued | punct |
| 25 | fatigued | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 slept | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 walk | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 walk | nmod:poss |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 walk | amod |
| 29 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fatigued | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 slept | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 slept | nsubj |
| 32 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 33 slept | advmod |
| 33 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 word | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 word | det |
| 36 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slept | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 command | case |
| 38 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 word | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | a hour | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | asunder | Rudy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rudy=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | roaring | all, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | might | Rudy | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | fatigue | participle | Rudy not said here | with Rudy's long walk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | sleep | past | Rudy | the word of command | readily property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | walk | Rudy | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | word | command | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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