Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 24

His uncle said that Rudy, in a very few years, would become a clever hunter, he had quite a talent for it; he taught the boy to hold a gun properly, and to load and fire it.

Who acts: uncle, Rudy · What happens: say, become, have, teach, hold, load · To what, where: clever hunter, talent, boy, gun · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (uncle, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 become	mark
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 become	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 years	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 years	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 few	advmod
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Rudy	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Rudy	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
14	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hunter	det
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hunter	amod
17	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 become	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
21	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	23 talent	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 talent	det
23	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 taught	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 taught	nsubj
28	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boy	det
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taught	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 hold	mark
32	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 taught	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gun	det
34	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hold	obj
35	properly	properly	ADV	_	32 hold	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 load	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 load	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 load	mark
39	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fire	cc
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 load	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 load	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	uncle's uncle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	become	would	Rudy	a clever hunter			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	uncle	quite talent		for talent	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Patient
4	teach speech: other	past	uncle		the boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
5	hold	to-infinitive	uncle not said here	a gun		properly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
6	load	to-infinitive	uncle's uncle not said here	talent			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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