Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 3
Poor Saperli had just arrived at his uncle's house when Rudy came.
Who acts: Poor Saperli, Rudy · What happens: arrive, come · To what, where: house
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 (Poor Saperli, 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Saperli | amod |
| 2 | Saperli | Saperli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 uncle | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | Poor Saperli | Saperli's uncle's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Rudy | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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