Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 51

He was not asleep, neither was he dead; but just as the various events in the world--matters of momentous importance to individuals--were flying through the telegraph wires, without the quiver of a wire or the slightest tone, so, through the mind of Rudy, thoughts of overwhelming importance were passing, without an outward sign of emotion.

Who acts: Rudy, various events, thoughts, momentous importance, wire · What happens: not be, be, fly, pass, matter, quiver · To what, where: telegraph wires, mind, Rudy, overwhelming importance, emotion

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, various events, thoughts, momentous importance), 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	4 asleep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 asleep	advmod
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
6	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 dead	cc:preconj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asleep	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 events	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 events	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	16 events	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 events	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 events	det
15	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 events	amod
16	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 events	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 matters	punct
21	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 events	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 importance	case
23	momentous	momentous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 importance	amod
24	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 matters	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 individuals	case
26	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 importance	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 flying	punct
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 flying	aux
29	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 events	acl
30	through	through	ADP	_	33 wires	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wires	det
32	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wires	compound
33	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flying	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 quiver	punct
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 quiver	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 quiver	det
37	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wires	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 wire	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 wire	det
40	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 quiver	nmod
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 tone	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tone	det
43	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 tone	amod
44	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wire	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 mind	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	50 mind	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 mind	punct
48	through	through	ADP	_	50 mind	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mind	det
50	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	parataxis
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 Rudy	case
52	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 mind	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 thoughts	punct
54	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 passing	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 importance	case
56	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 importance	amod
57	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 thoughts	nmod
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 passing	aux
59	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 mind	acl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 sign	punct
61	without	without	ADP	_	64 sign	case
62	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 sign	det
63	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 sign	amod
64	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 passing	conj
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 emotion	case
66	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 sign	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Rudy			asleep property	tree rules
2	is	past	Rudy			dead property	tree rules
3	fly	past · progressive	the various events in the world and matters of momentous importance to individuals not said here		the telegraph wires		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wire=Location
4	pass	past · progressive	thoughts of overwhelming importance	the mind of Rudy not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Trajectory
5	matter		momentous importance to individuals				nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
6	quiver		a wire or the slightest tone				nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
7	mind			Rudy			nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	think			overwhelming importance			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	sign			emotion			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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