Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 44
Rudy arrived at Bex, and soon finished the business which had brought him there, and then walked about the town; but not even the miller's boy could be seen, nor any one belonging to the mill, not to mention Babette.
Who acts: Rudy, one · What happens: arrive, finish, bring, walk, see, belong · To what, where: Bex, business, boy, Babette
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, one), 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 | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Bex | case |
| 4 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finished | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 finished | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 finished | advmod |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 business | det |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 business | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 brought | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 walked | advmod |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 seen | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 seen | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 boy | advmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 boy | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 miller | det |
| 28 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boy | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 miller | case |
| 30 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 seen | aux:pass |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 arrived | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 one | punct |
| 35 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 37 one | cc |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 one | det |
| 37 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seen | conj |
| 38 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 one | acl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 mill | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mill | det |
| 41 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 belonging | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 mention | punct |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 mention | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 mention | mark |
| 45 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 belonging | conj |
| 46 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 mention | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Rudy | Bex | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | finish | past | Rudy not said here | the business | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality business=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the business | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Rudy not said here | then | about the town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about town=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | see | could · passive | the miller's boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | belong | gerund | any one not said here | to the mill | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not mention speech: other | to-infinitive | any one not said here | Babette | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent babette=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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