Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 161

Rudy felt inclined to laugh sometimes at the absurd dress and walk of the foreign ladies; but Babette did not wish to make fun of them, for she knew there must be some good, excellent people amongst them; she, herself, had a godmother, who was a high-born English lady.

Who acts: Rudy, Babette, arm, good excellent people, godmother · What happens: feel, laugh, walk, not wish, make, know · To what, where: absurd dress, fun, godmother, born English lady · 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, Babette, arm, good excellent people), 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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 laugh	mark
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 inclined	xcomp
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 laugh	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 dress	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dress	det
9	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dress	amod
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walk	cc
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 laugh	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 ladies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ladies	det
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ladies	amod
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walk	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 wish	cc
19	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 wish	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wish	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 wish	advmod
22	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wish	xcomp
25	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fun	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knew	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 knew	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 knew	nsubj
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wish	parataxis
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 be	expl
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 knew	ccomp
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 people	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 good	punct
38	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 be	nsubj
40	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 people	nmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 herself	punct
45	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 she	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 she	punct
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 godmother	det
49	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lady	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 lady	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 lady	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 lady	det
54	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 born	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 high	punct
56	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 lady	amod
57	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 lady	amod
58	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 godmother	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Rudy			inclined property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	laugh	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here		the absurd dress	sometimes property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	infinitive	Rudy not said here			of the foreign ladies	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of lady=Trajectory
4	not wish	past · do-support	Babette				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Babette not said here	fun of people			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
6	know	past	arm				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be	must	some good excellent people amongst ladies		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have	past	arm	a godmother and a born English lady			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godmother=Patient
9	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a	past	a godmother and a born English lady	a born English lady			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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