Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 38
Rudy, as usual, had plenty of courage, and indulged in pleasant thoughts of the favorable answer he should receive that evening.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: have, indulge, receive, think · To what, where: plenty, pleasant thoughts, favorable answer
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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rudy | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 usual | case |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Rudy | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rudy | punct |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 courage | case |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plenty | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 indulged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 indulged | cc |
| 12 | indulged | indulge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 had | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thoughts | case |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thoughts | amod |
| 15 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 indulged | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 answer | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 answer | det |
| 18 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 answer | amod |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thoughts | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 receive | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 receive | aux |
| 22 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 indulged | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 evening | det |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receive | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rudy as usual | plenty of courage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | indulge | participle | Rudy as usual not said here | pleasant thoughts of the favorable answer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | receive | should | Rudy | evening | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think | the favorable answer | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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