Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 31

Rudy had never spoken a word to her on the subject.

What happens: not speak · To what, where: Rudy, subject · 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: 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	4 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 subject	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 subject	det
11	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Rudy		the subject			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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