Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 12
So Rudy set out to go to Bex; and when he arrived there, he found the miller and his daughter at home.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: set out, go, arrive, find · To what, where: Bex, miller
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Bex | case |
| 8 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 arrived | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | advcl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 arrived | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrived | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 miller | det |
| 19 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 daughter | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 miller | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Rudy | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | Bex | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bex=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | Rudy | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Rudy | the miller and Rudy's daughter at home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic |
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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