Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 23
This was the first time Rudy had ever heard of France, or of Lyons, that great city on the Rhone where his uncle had once lived.
Who acts: This, first time, uncle · What happens: be, hear, live · To what, where: first time, 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 (This, first time, uncle), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 heard | advmod |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 France | case |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lyons | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Lyons | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lyons | case |
| 15 | Lyons | lyon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 time | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 city | punct |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 city | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lyons | appos |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Rhone | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Rhone | det |
| 22 | Rhone | rhone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lived | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lived | aux |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 lived | advmod |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 Rhone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the first time not said here | Rudy | ever | of France | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | live | past · perfect | Rudy's uncle | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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