Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 59

Rudy pressed his hand, and replied, "A letter would not reach Him up above; it would not give him back whom we have lost."

Who acts: Rudy, letter, we · What happens: press, reply, not reach up, not give, lose · To what, where: hand, Rudy · 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, letter, we), 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	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 replied	cc
7	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pressed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reach	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 reach	punct
10	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 letter	det
11	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reach	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 reach	advmod
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pressed	advcl
15	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reach	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 reach	compound:prt
17	above	above	ADV	_	14 reach	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 give	advmod
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pressed	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	back	back	ADV	_	25 whom	advmod
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lost	obj
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 lost	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 lost	aux
28	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 give	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 lost	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	press	past	Rudy	Rudy's hand			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	participle	Rudy not said here				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not reach up in a quote	would	a letter	Rudy		above property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not give in a quote	would	letter		Rudy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	lose in a quote	present · perfect	we				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality

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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