Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 164

Her sweet little mouth was never still a moment, and all that she said sounded in Rudy's ears as matters of the greatest importance, and at last he told her what he was longing to tell.

Who acts: sweet little mouth, arm, Rudy, greatest importance · What happens: not be, say, sound, tell, long, matter · To what, where: moment, ears, arm, last · 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 (sweet little mouth, arm, Rudy, greatest importance), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mouth	nmod:poss
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouth	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouth	amod
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moment	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 moment	cop
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 moment	advmod
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 moment	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 said	det:predet
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 moment	parataxis
16	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 ears	case
18	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ears	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Rudy	case
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sounded	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 matters	case
22	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sounded	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 importance	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 importance	det
25	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 importance	amod
26	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 matters	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 told	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 longing	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 longing	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 longing	aux
37	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 told	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 tell	mark
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 longing	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	arm's sweet little mouth	a moment			still		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	arm						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sound	participle	arm not said here			Rudy's ears		as matters of the greatest importance	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	Rudy		arm	last			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	long	past · progressive	Rudy						tree rules
6	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	matter		the greatest importance						nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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