Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 46
The tree to which Rudy clung was thus overthrown, and Rudy dashed to the ground.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: cling, overthrow, dash · To what, where: tree, ground
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), 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 | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overthrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 clung | obl |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clung | nsubj |
| 6 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tree | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 overthrown | advmod |
| 9 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dashed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dashed | cc |
| 12 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dashed | nsubj |
| 13 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overthrown | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dashed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overthrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | past | Rudy | to the tree | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | overthrow | past · passive | the tree | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dash | past | Rudy | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination |
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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