Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 18
He was also such a famous partner in dancing, that the girls often dreamt about him, and one and another thought of him even when awake.
Who acts: Rudy, girls · What happens: be, dreamt, think · To what, where: famous partner, dancing, Rudy
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, girls), 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 | 7 partner | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 partner | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 partner | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 partner | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 partner | det |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 partner | amod |
| 7 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dancing | case |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 partner | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dreamt | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dreamt | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girls | det |
| 13 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dreamt | nsubj |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 dreamt | advmod |
| 15 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 partner | parataxis |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dreamt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 awake | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 awake | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 awake | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thought | cc |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 thought | det |
| 23 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 awake | advmod |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 awake | advmod |
| 28 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dreamt | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 partner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rudy | such famous partner | dancing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dreamt | present | the girls | about Rudy; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think | Rudy | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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