Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 39
And when the omnibus returned, Rudy was again seated in it, going homewards; and at the same time the parlor-cat at the miller's house ran out quickly, crying,--
Who acts: omnibus, parlor cat · What happens: return, seat, go, run out, cry · To what, where: Rudy, omnibus, homewards
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 (omnibus, parlor cat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ran | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 returned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 omnibus | det |
| 4 | omnibus | omnibus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 ran | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 7 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seated | aux:pass |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 seated | advmod |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seated | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seated | advcl |
| 15 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 going | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ran | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cat | det |
| 23 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cat | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 parlor | punct |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 miller | det |
| 28 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 miller | case |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cat | nmod |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 ran | compound:prt |
| 33 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 31 ran | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 crying | punct |
| 35 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 ran | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 crying | punct |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the omnibus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | Rudy | omnibus | again | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in it=Location | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | homewards | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run out | past | the parlor cat at the miller's house | time | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | the parlor cat at the miller's house not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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