Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 35
It happened once that Rudy had some business to settle at Bex.
Who acts: It, Rudy · What happens: happen, have, settle · To what, where: business, Bex
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 (It, 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 | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 business | det |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 settle | mark |
| 10 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 business | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Bex | case |
| 12 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 settle | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Rudy | some business | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient | ||||
| 3 | settle | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | some business not said here | Bex | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bex=Location |
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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