Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 29
Rudy and Babette have been treading on each other's paws, under the table, all the evening.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: tread · To what, where: other paws
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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 treading | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Babette | cc |
| 3 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rudy | conj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treading | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 treading | aux |
| 6 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 paws | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 paws | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 paws | amod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 other | case |
| 11 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 treading | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 table | punct |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treading | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 evening | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 evening | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 table | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 treading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | present · perfect · progressive | Rudy and Babette | each other paws | under the table and all evening | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Trajectory |
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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