Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 127
The shooters were thronging round the target, and Rudy was soon amongst them.
Who acts: shooters, Rudy · What happens: throng, be
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 (shooters, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shooters | det |
| 2 | shooters | shooter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thronging | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thronging | aux |
| 4 | thronging | throng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 target | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 target | det |
| 7 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thronging | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 them | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 them | cc |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 them | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 them | cop |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 them | advmod |
| 13 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thronging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thronging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throng | past · progressive | the shooters | round the target | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rudy | amongst ears = ear; soon property | 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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