Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 35
Rudy himself was anxious to know that; but to wait till the miller heard of it from others was out of the question.
Who acts: Rudy, miller · What happens: be, know, wait, hear · To what, where: that, question
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, miller), 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 | 4 anxious | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Rudy | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 anxious | cop |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anxious | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 wait | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wait | mark |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 anxious | parataxis |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 miller | det |
| 14 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 question | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 question | cop |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 question | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 question | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 question | det |
| 24 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rudy Rudy | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past | the miller | of engagement | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the question | from others | 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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