Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 11
None could climb like he, and he clung as firmly to the edges of the rocks as a limpet.
Who acts: None, Rudy · What happens: climb, cling
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 (None, Rudy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4127): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | aux |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 he | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climb | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clung | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 clung | nsubj |
| 9 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 firmly | advmod |
| 11 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 9 clung | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 edges | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edges | det |
| 14 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clung | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rocks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rocks | det |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 edges | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 limpet | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 limpet | det |
| 20 | limpet | limpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 as | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | could | None | like Rudy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cling | past | Rudy | to the edges of the rocks; firmly property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to edge=Co-Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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