Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 22
A young Englishman had offered Rudy a whole handful of gold, if he would bring him the young eagle alive.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: offer, bring · To what, where: young Englishman, Rudy, young eagle, Valais
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Englishman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Englishman | amod |
| 3 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offered | aux |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 handful | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 handful | amod |
| 9 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 handful | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bring | aux |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 offered | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eagle | amod |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 21 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bring | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · perfect · passive | a young Englishman | Rudy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | would | Rudy | the young eagle | Valais | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination eagle=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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