Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 113

There was one street which Rudy thought the prettiest of them all; it had been built since he had visited the town when a little boy.

Who acts: one street · What happens: be, think, build, visit · To what, where: course, Rudy

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 (one street), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 street	nummod
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 thought	nsubj
6	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 street	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prettiest	det
9	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 thought	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prettiest	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 them	nmod:unmarked
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 built	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 built	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 built	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 built	aux:pass
17	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	advcl
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 visited	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 visited	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 visited	aux
21	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 built	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 visited	obj
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 boy	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boy	amod
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 visited	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one street		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	one street			pretty property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build	past · perfect · passive		course			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	visit	past · perfect · passive		Rudy			tree rules

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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