Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 144

Rudy, by his shooting, had gained the first place in the shooting-match, just as the miller at home at Bex stood first, because of his money and his mill.

Who acts: miller, Rudy · What happens: gain, stand, shoot · To what, where: Rudy, shooting match, Bex

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 (miller, 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	8 gained	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shooting	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 shooting	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shooting	nmod:poss
5	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rudy	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rudy	punct
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gained	aux
8	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gained	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 match	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 match	det
14	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 match	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shooting	punct
16	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gained	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 miller	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	21 miller	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 miller	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 miller	det
21	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 miller	nmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 Bex	case
25	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gained	parataxis
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 stood	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 money	punct
29	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	32 money	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 because	fixed
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 money	nmod:poss
32	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 mill	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mill	nmod:poss
35	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 money	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gain	past · perfect · passive		Rudy	the shooting match		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary place=Theme
2	stand	past	the miller at home		Bex	because Rudy's money and Rudy's mill; first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bex=Location
3	shoot		Rudy				nom shooting «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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