Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 1
Rudy arrived at last at his uncle's house, and was thankful to find the people like those he had been accustomed to see.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: arrive, be, find, accustom, see · To what, where: last, people, Rudy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. 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 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 uncle | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thankful | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thankful | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thankful | cop |
| 13 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thankful | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 people | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 accustomed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 accustomed | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 23 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 accustomed | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Rudy | last | at Rudy's uncle's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | thankful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the people | like those | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 4 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | Rudy | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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