Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 23

"There is a limit to everything," was Rudy's reply. "

What happens: be · To what, where: reply

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: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 reply	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 limit	det
5	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everything	case
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 limit	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reply	cop
11	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reply	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Rudy	case
13	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 reply	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 reply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Rudy's reply					tree rules

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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