Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 9
Suddenly there appeared, close by Rudy's side, a young maiden; he had not noticed her till she came quite near to him.
Who acts: wind, river · What happens: appear, not notice, come · To what, where: river
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 (wind, river), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appeared | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rudy | case |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 maiden | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | appos |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticed | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 noticed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 noticed | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 noticed | advmod |
| 18 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 appeared | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 noticed | obj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 noticed | advcl |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 near | advmod |
| 24 | near | near | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 near | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | participle | there | by Rudy's side; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 2 | not notice | past · perfect | wind | river | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | river | near 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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