Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 138
Rudy turned round, and beheld a man with a ruddy, pleasant face, and a stout figure.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: turn round, behold · To what, where: man
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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beheld | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beheld | cc |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 face | det |
| 11 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruddy | punct |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 figure | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 figure | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 figure | det |
| 18 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 figure | amod |
| 19 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | Rudy | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Rudy not said here | a man | with a ruddy pleasant face; a stout figure obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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