Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 17

Rudy would be a very good match, as people said, if he would not look above his own station.

Who acts: Rudy, people · What happens: be, say, not look · To what, where: good match · 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, 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	7 match	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 match	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 match	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 match	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 match	amod
7	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 match	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 look	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 look	advmod
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	above	above	ADP	_	21 station	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 station	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 station	amod
21	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Rudy	a good match		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not look a condition, not said to happen	would	Rudy		above Rudy's own station	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent above station=Theme

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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