Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 14
Rudy was considered the best guide over the mountains; every one had great confidence in him.
Who acts: one · What happens: consider, have · To what, where: Rudy, mountains, great confidence
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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | aux:pass |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guide | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 guide | amod |
| 6 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 considered | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | conj |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 confidence | amod |
| 15 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | Rudy | the mountains | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | past | every one | great confidence | in Rudy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=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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