Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 104
Rudy took the rose as a good omen, and thought of Babette.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: take, think · To what, where: rose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rose | det |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 omen | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 omen | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 omen | amod |
| 8 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Babette | case |
| 13 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rudy | the rose | as a good omen | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rose=Theme as omen=Attribute | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Rudy not said here | of Babette | vn focus-87.1-1 «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.
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