Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 142

Now was Rudy really fortunate: he had travelled all this way to this place, and those he had forgotten were now come to seek him.

Who acts: Rudy, those · What happens: be, travell, forget, come, seek · To what, where: way, Rudy

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, those), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fortunate	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fortunate	cop
3	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fortunate	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 fortunate	advmod
5	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 travelled	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 travelled	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 travelled	aux
9	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fortunate	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelled	obl:unmarked
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 come	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgotten	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forgotten	aux
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 those	acl:relcl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 come	advmod
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 travelled	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 seek	mark
26	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seek	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fortunate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rudy		now	fortunate property	tree rules
2	travell	past · perfect	Rudy	all way		to this place	tree rules
3	forget	past · perfect	Rudy				tree rules
4	come	past	those		now		tree rules
5	seek	to-infinitive	those not said here	Rudy			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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