Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 9
Rudy's uncle was, as we have said, one of the most noted chamois hunters in the whole district, and also one of the best guides.
What happens: say, note · To what, where: uncle · 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: 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 | 3 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Rudy | case |
| 3 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hunters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hunters | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 noted | advmod |
| 15 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hunters | amod |
| 16 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunters | compound |
| 17 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 district | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 district | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 district | amod |
| 21 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunters | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 one | cc |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 one | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 one | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 guides | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 guides | det |
| 28 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 guides | amod |
| 29 | guides | guide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Rudy's uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
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