Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 134
Good fortune gives courage, and Rudy was always courageous.
Who acts: Good fortune, Rudy · What happens: give, be · To what, where: courage
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 (Good fortune, 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fortune | amod |
| 2 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 courageous | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 courageous | cc |
| 7 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 courageous | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 courageous | cop |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 courageous | advmod |
| 10 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gives | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Good fortune | courage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rudy | always, courageous 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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