Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 49
"So they turned to go in, and Rudy trod heavily on my tail; he certainly is very clumsy.
Who acts: wind, Rudy · What happens: turn, go in, tread, be · To what, where: tail
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 (wind, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trod | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trod | cc |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trod | nsubj |
| 11 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 12 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 11 trod | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tail | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trod | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 clumsy | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 clumsy | nsubj |
| 18 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 21 clumsy | advmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 clumsy | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 clumsy | advmod |
| 21 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | past | wind | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in in a quote | to-infinitive | wind not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tread in a quote | past | Rudy | my tail | heavily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Rudy | certainly, clumsy property | 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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