Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 50

Against one of these poles leaned an object so motionless that it might have been mistaken for the trunk of a tree; but it was Rudy, standing there as still as at that moment was everything around him.

Who acts: poles, object, Rudy · What happens: learn, mistake, be, stand · To what, where: object, Rudy, everything

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 (poles, object, 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	Against	against	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leaned	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 poles	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 poles	det
5	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaned	nsubj
6	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 object	det
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaned	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 motionless	advmod
10	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 object	amod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 mistaken	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mistaken	nsubj:pass
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 mistaken	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 mistaken	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 mistaken	aux:pass
16	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 motionless	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 trunk	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trunk	det
19	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mistaken	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trunk	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 everything	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 everything	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Rudy	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Rudy	cop
27	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 everything	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 standing	punct
29	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 Rudy	acl
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 standing	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 still	advmod
32	still	still	ADV	_	29 standing	advmod
33	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	36 moment	case
34	at	at	ADP	_	33 as	fixed
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 moment	det
36	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	obl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 everything	cop
38	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 leaned	obl
39	around	around	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 everything	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	this poles	a object			against one	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Topic
2	mistake	might · perfect · passive		object			for the trunk of a tree	tree rules
3	is a	past	object	Rudy				tree rules
4	stand	gerund	Rudy not said here		there	still; moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Rudy	everything			around valley	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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