Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 173
"To-morrow I must return home," remarked Rudy a few minutes afterwards.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: return, remark · 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), 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 | _ | 7 return | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 return | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 return | aux |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 return | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 return | advcl |
| 12 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minutes | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minutes | amod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remarked | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 15 minutes | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | must | Rudy | to morrow result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to morrow=Result | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Rudy | minute | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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