Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 146
Babette, too, held out her hand to Rudy frankly, and he pressed it in his, and looked at her so earnestly, that she blushed deeply.
Who acts: Babette, place · What happens: hold out, press, look, blush · To what, where: Babette, Rudy, hand
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 (Babette, place), 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Babette | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 too | punct |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Rudy | case |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 11 | frankly | frankly | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pressed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pressed | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pressed | nsubj |
| 15 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pressed | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 his | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pressed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pressed | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | obl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 earnestly | advmod |
| 25 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 blushed | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 blushed | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 blushed | nsubj |
| 29 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 looked | conj |
| 30 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 29 blushed | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | participle · passive | Babette | Rudy | frankly property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme hand=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | press | past | Babette | hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent it=Theme his=Result | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Babette not said here | at place; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blush | past | place | deeply property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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