Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 34
He had learnt this lesson in his youthful home.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: learn · To what, where: lesson, youthful home
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learnt | aux |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lesson | det |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 home | amod |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | Rudy | this lesson | Rudy's youthful home | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
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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