Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 43
Rudy came here this evening, and he and Babette had much whispering and secret conversation together.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: come, have · To what, where: much whispering
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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Babette | cc |
| 10 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 he | conj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whispering | amod |
| 13 | whispering | whispering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 conversation | cc |
| 15 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 conversation | amod |
| 16 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispering | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Rudy | here | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Rudy | much whispering and secret conversation | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whispering=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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