Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 1
Oh, what a number of things Rudy had to carry over the mountains, when he set out to return home!
Who acts: Rudy, things · What happens: have, carry, set out, return · To what, where: things, mountains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, things), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 set | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 return | mark |
| 21 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 set | xcomp |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 return | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rudy | things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | things not said here | the mountains | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | Rudy | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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