Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 159
Then he told her how happy it made him to meet people from the canton Vaud,--for Vaud and Valais were neighboring cantons.
Who acts: Rudy, walk, Vaud · What happens: tell, make, meet, be · To what, where: arm, Rudy, people, canton · Speech: someone speaks here
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, walk, Vaud), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | advcl |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 canton | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 canton | det |
| 15 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meet | obl |
| 16 | Vaud | Vaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 canton | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Vaud | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 cantons | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 cantons | case |
| 20 | Vaud | Vaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cantons | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Valais | cc |
| 22 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Vaud | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cantons | cop |
| 24 | neighboring | neighboring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cantons | amod |
| 25 | cantons | canton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Rudy | arm | then | happy property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | make | past | walk | Rudy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | walk not said here | people | the canton | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | Vaud and Valais | for neighboring cantons | tree rules |
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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