Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 25
The wine was passed round freely, and the conversation kept up pleasantly; but the evening seemed too short for Rudy, although it was midnight when he left the miller's house, after this his first visit.
Who acts: conversation, evening, Rudy · What happens: pass round, keep up, seem, be, leave, visit · To what, where: wine, house
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 (conversation, evening, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wine | det |
| 2 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conversation | det |
| 10 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 kept | compound:prt |
| 13 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 seemed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 evening | det |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 short | advmod |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Rudy | case |
| 22 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 short | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 midnight | punct |
| 24 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 27 midnight | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 midnight | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 midnight | cop |
| 27 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 left | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 left | nsubj |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seemed | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 miller | det |
| 32 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 house | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 miller | case |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 this | case |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 left | obl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 visit | nmod:poss |
| 39 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 visit | amod |
| 40 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass round | past · passive | the wine | freely, round property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | keep up | participle | the conversation | pleasantly property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the evening | short property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | conversation | although midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | Rudy | the miller's house | after this | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme visit=Attribute | |||
| 6 | visit | Rudy | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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