Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 28
One day, when Rudy went out hunting with his uncle, he hung a coat and hat on an alpine staff, and the chamois mistook it for a man, as they generally do.
Who acts: Rudy, chamois, coat · What happens: go out, hunt, hang, mistake, do · To what, where: coat, alpine staff, staff
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, coat), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hung | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 uncle | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hung | nsubj |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coat | det |
| 16 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hat | cc |
| 18 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coat | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 staff | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 staff | det |
| 21 | alpine | alpine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 staff | compound |
| 22 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mistook | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mistook | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chamois | det |
| 26 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mistook | nsubj |
| 27 | mistook | mistake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hung | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 mistook | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mistook | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 do | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 do | nsubj |
| 35 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 36 do | advmod |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 mistook | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Rudy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | Rudy not said here | with Rudy's uncle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | Rudy | a coat and hat | a alpine staff | day | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coat=Theme on staff=Destination | ||
| 4 | mistake | past | the chamois | staff | for a man | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | present | coat | generally property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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