Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 4
Rudy allowed himself to be kissed; but it could be seen by his countenance that he only endured the infliction as a homely duty.
Who acts: Rudy, countenance · What happens: allow, kiss, see, endure · To what, where: Rudy, luck, infliction
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, countenance), 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 | 2 allowed | nsubj |
| 2 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 allowed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kissed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kissed | aux:pass |
| 6 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 allowed | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 countenance | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 endured | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 endured | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 endured | advmod |
| 19 | endured | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 infliction | det |
| 21 | infliction | infliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 endured | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 duty | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 duty | det |
| 24 | homely | homely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 duty | amod |
| 25 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 endured | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | Rudy | Rudy | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kiss not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Rudy not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | see | could · passive | Rudy's countenance | luck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | endure | past | Rudy | the infliction | as a homely duty | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme infliction=Circumstance |
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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