Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 128
But when he took his turn to fire, he proved himself the best shot, for he always struck the bull's-eye.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: take, prove, strike · To what, where: turn, Rudy, bull's eye
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 proved | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 proved | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fire | mark |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proved | nsubj |
| 11 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 proved | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shot | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 shot | amod |
| 15 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proved | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 struck | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 struck | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 struck | advmod |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 proved | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eye | det |
| 22 | bull's | bull's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eye | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bull's | punct |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rudy | Rudy's turn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prove | past | Rudy | Rudy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme shot=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | Rudy | the bull's eye | always property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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