Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 34
Rudy's uncle had eyes for nothing but the chamois, who, with its young kid, had just appeared round the edge of the rock.
Who acts: uncle · What happens: have, appear · To what, where: eyes
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), 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Rudy | case |
| 3 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 chamois | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chamois | det |
| 10 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kid | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 kid | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kid | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 kid | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kid | nmod:poss |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kid | amod |
| 17 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 appeared | aux |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 appeared | advmod |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | conj |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 edge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rock | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rock | det |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edge | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rudy's uncle | eyes | for nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | appear | past · perfect | Rudy's uncle not said here | round the edge of the rock | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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