Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 166
He told her all this, and a great deal more; he told her how much he could endure for her; and that it was to see her, and not the shooting-match, which had brought him to Interlachen.
Who acts: Rudy, deal · What happens: tell, endure, see, bring · To what, where: this, arm, much, shooting match, Interlachen · 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, deal), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 told | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deal | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 deal | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 deal | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deal | amod |
| 10 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 told | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 told | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 endure | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 endure | aux |
| 20 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 endure | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 see | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 match | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 match | cc |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 match | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 match | det |
| 35 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 match | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 shooting | punct |
| 37 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 brought | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 brought | aux |
| 41 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 match | acl |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 brought | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 Interlachen | case |
| 44 | Interlachen | Interlachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 brought | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Rudy | this | arm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Rudy | much | arm | tree rules | |||
| 3 | endure | could | Rudy | for arm | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | deal | arm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the shooting match | Interlachen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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