Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 37
The large bird, alarmed at the report of the gun, wheeled off in another direction, and Rudy's uncle was saved from danger, of which he knew nothing till he was told of it by the boy.
Who acts: uncle, boy · What happens: alarm, wheel off, save, know, tell, report · To what, where: large bird, report, direction, uncle, danger, nothing · 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 (uncle, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wheeled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alarmed | punct |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bird | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 report | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 report | det |
| 8 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gun | det |
| 11 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 report | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wheeled | punct |
| 13 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 wheeled | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 direction | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 direction | det |
| 17 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wheeled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saved | cc |
| 20 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Rudy | case |
| 22 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | aux:pass |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wheeled | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 danger | case |
| 26 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knew | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 knew | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knew | nsubj |
| 31 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | conj |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 knew | obj |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 told | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 told | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 told | aux:pass |
| 36 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 knew | advcl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 told | obl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 boy | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 boy | det |
| 41 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 told | obl:agent |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wheeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | participle | the large bird not said here | the report of the gun | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wheel off | participle · passive | the large bird | another direction | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | past · passive | Rudy's uncle | danger | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from danger=Source | ||||
| 4 | know | past | uncle | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the boy | uncle | of bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 6 | report | the gun | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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