Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 13
He had learnt this first from the cat, and more lately from the chamois.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: learn · To what, where: this
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4129): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learnt | aux |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 learnt | obj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 learnt | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lately | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lately | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 lately | advmod |
| 12 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 3 learnt | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 chamois | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamois | det |
| 15 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lately | orphan |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | Rudy | this | from the cat; first property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent this=Topic from cat=Source |
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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