Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 75
Babette is at Interlachen," said Rudy to himself, "many days' journey from here.
Who acts: Babette, many days · What happens: be, say, journey · To what, where: Interlachen, Rudy · 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 (Babette, many days), 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Interlachen | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Interlachen | case |
| 4 | Interlachen | Interlachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Babette | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Babette | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Babette | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 journey | punct |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 days | case |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 here | case |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 journey | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Interlachen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Babette | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | journey | many days | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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