Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 35

So Rudy kept his eyes fixed on the bird, he knew well what the great creature wanted; therefore he stood in readiness to discharge his gun at the proper moment.

Who acts: Rudy, great creature · What happens: keep, fix, know, want, stand, discharge · To what, where: eyes, readiness, gun

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, great creature), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obj
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eyes	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 what	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 knew	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creature	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 creature	amod
17	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 stood	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 readiness	case
24	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 discharge	mark
26	discharge	discharge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 stood	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 gun	nmod:poss
28	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 discharge	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 moment	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moment	det
31	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 moment	amod
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 discharge	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Rudy	Rudy's eyes				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	fix	participle		Rudy's eyes not said here			on the bird	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	know	past	Rudy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	want	past	the great creature					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	stand	past	Rudy		readiness		therefore property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in readiness=Location
6	discharge	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here	Rudy's gun		moment		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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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