Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 172
"Nothing!" replied Rudy, looking at Babette.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: reply, look
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 (Nothing), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Babette | case |
| 10 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Nothing | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Nothing not said here | at Babette | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at babette=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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