Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 53
Towards evening, however, he came to Rudy, and said, "Will you write a letter for me?
Who acts: Rudy, you · What happens: come, say, write · To what, where: Rudy, letter · 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 (Rudy, you), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 evening | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Rudy | case |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 write | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 write | punct |
| 15 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 write | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 write | nsubj |
| 17 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 letter | det |
| 19 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 write | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 write | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Rudy | Rudy | evening | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rudy=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Rudy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | write in a quote | future | you | a letter | for Rudy | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent letter=Result for i=Beneficiary |
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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