Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 27

He told him also that the chamois are very cunning, they place lookers-out on the watch; but the hunter must be more cunning than they are, and find them out by the scent.

Who acts: Rudy, chamois, feet, hunter · What happens: tell, be, looker, find out · To what, where: uncle, cunning, feet · 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 (Rudy, chamois, feet, hunter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	also	also	ADV	_	10 cunning	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cunning	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chamois	det
7	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cunning	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cunning	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 cunning	advmod
10	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lookers	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lookers	nsubj
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lookers	compound
14	lookers	looker	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cunning	obl
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 out	punct
16	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lookers	appos
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 watch	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 watch	det
19	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 out	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 cunning	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 cunning	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hunter	det
23	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cunning	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 cunning	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 cunning	cop
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 cunning	advmod
27	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	parataxis
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 are	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 are	nsubj
30	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cunning	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 find	compound:prt
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 scent	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 scent	det
38	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Rudy		uncle		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	the chamois			cunning property	tree rules
3	looker		feet = foot				tree rules
4	is a	must	the hunter	cunning			tree rules
5	does	present	feet = foot				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find out	infinitive	Rudy not said here	feet = foot		by the scent	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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