Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 12
Rudy stroked the old hound, but he did not like strangers, and Rudy was as yet a stranger; he did not, however, long remain so, he soon endeared himself to every heart, and became like one of the family.
Who acts: Rudy, long · What happens: stroke, not like, be, not do, remain, endear · To what, where: old hound, strangers, 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, long), 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 stroked | nsubj |
| 2 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hound | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hound | amod |
| 5 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stroked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 like | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 like | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stroked | conj |
| 12 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 like | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stranger | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stranger | cc |
| 15 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 stranger | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stranger | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 stranger | case |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 stranger | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stranger | det |
| 20 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stroked | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stroked | parataxis |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 did | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 remain | punct |
| 26 | however | however | ADV | _ | 29 remain | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 however | punct |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 remain | nsubj |
| 29 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 did | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 remain | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 endeared | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 endeared | nsubj |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 endeared | advmod |
| 34 | endeared | endear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stroked | conj |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 endeared | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 heart | det |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 endeared | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 became | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 became | cc |
| 41 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stroked | conj |
| 42 | like | like | ADP | _ | 43 one | case |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 became | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 family | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 family | det |
| 46 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 one | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | Rudy | the old hound | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | Rudy | strangers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stranger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Rudy | as a stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | past | Rudy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remain | present | long | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | endear | past | Rudy | Rudy | to every heart; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | become | past | Rudy not said here | like one of the family | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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