Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 60
Then Rudy laughed joyously, and took courage to go to the mill.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: laugh, take, go · To what, where: courage, mill
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 8 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mill | det |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Rudy | then | joyously property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past | Rudy not said here | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | the mill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_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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