Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 81
Carrying his light knapsack, which contained his Sunday clothes, on his back, and with his musket and his game-bag over his shoulder, Rudy started to take the shortest way across the mountain.
Who acts: light knapsack, Rudy · What happens: carry, contain, start, take · To what, where: light knapsack, Sunday clothes, back, shortest way, mountain
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 (light knapsack, 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 | Carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 3 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knapsack | amod |
| 4 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carrying | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 contained | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 contained | nsubj |
| 7 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knapsack | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 clothes | compound |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 contained | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 back | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contained | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 started | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 started | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 musket | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 musket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 started | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bag | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bag | nmod:poss |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bag | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 game | punct |
| 24 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 musket | conj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 shoulder | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bag | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 musket | punct |
| 29 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 started | nsubj |
| 30 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Carrying | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 started | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 way | det |
| 34 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 way | amod |
| 35 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 36 | across | across | ADP | _ | 38 mountain | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mountain | det |
| 38 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | Babette's light knapsack | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | |||||
| 2 | contain | past | Babette's light knapsack | Babette's Sunday clothes | Babette's back | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot clothes=Theme | |||
| 3 | start | past | Rudy | with Babette's musket and Babette's game bag over Babette's shoulder | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | the shortest way | the mountain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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