Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 5
Everything was new to Rudy--the fashion of the dress, the manners, the employments, and even the language; but the latter his childish ear would soon learn.
Who acts: Everything, childish ear · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: Rudy
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 (Everything, childish ear), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 new | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 new | cop |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Rudy | case |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 new | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 fashion | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fashion | det |
| 8 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 new | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dress | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dress | det |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fashion | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 manners | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 manners | det |
| 14 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 fashion | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 employments | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 employments | det |
| 17 | employments | employment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fashion | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 language | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 language | cc |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 language | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 language | det |
| 22 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fashion | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 latter | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 latter | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 latter | det |
| 26 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 new | parataxis |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ear | nmod:poss |
| 28 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ear | amod |
| 29 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 learn | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 learn | aux |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 learn | advmod |
| 32 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 latter | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | Rudy | new property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | would | Rudy's childish ear | soon property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/5/