Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 21

It was therefore soon known that Rudy, so brave and so good as he was, had kissed some one while dancing, and yet he had never kissed her who was dearest to him.

Who acts: Rudy · What happens: know, kiss, dance, not kiss, be · To what, where: dance, 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), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 known	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux:pass
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	5 known	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 known	advmod
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 Rudy	mark
7	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 known	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brave	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 brave	advmod
10	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 known	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 good	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brave	conj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 kissed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kissed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kissed	aux:pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kissed	punct
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kissed	aux
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 brave	advcl
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kissed	obj
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 dancing	mark
23	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 kissed	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kissed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kissed	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 kissed	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kissed	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kissed	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 kissed	advmod
30	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 known	parataxis
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dearest	nmod:poss
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 dearest	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dearest	cop
34	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 kissed	obl:agent
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dearest	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		dance			Rudy obl; soon, therefore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	kiss	past · perfect · passive		Rudy				tree rules
3	dance	gerund						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not kiss	past · perfect	Rudy			yet		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			Rudy		dear property	tree rules

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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