Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 68

Mew," said the cat again; and had Rudy been still a child, he would have understood this language, and known that the cat wished to tell him there was no one at home.

Who acts: Mew, Rudy, cat, one · What happens: say, have, be, understand, know, wish · To what, where: cat, Rudy, child, language · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mew, Rudy, cat, 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	Mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mew	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Mew	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 child	parataxis
11	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 child	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 child	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understood	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 understood	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 understood	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 understood	aux
20	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 language	det
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 understood	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 known	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 known	cc
25	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wished	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cat	det
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wished	nsubj
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 known	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	ccomp
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 home	case
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mew	the cat			again	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	have in a quote	past		Rudy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudy=Patient
3	is a in a quote	participle		a child			still	tree rules
4	understand in a quote	would · perfect	Rudy	this language				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
5	know in a quote	participle	Mew not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	wish in a quote	past	the cat					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the cat not said here		Rudy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	be in a quote	past	no one at home			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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