Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 53
I hardly know what Rudy said; but the miller flew into a rage, and threatened to kick him out of the house.
Who acts: I, Rudy, miller · What happens: know, say, fly, threaten, kick · To what, where: rage, Rudy, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Rudy, miller), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miller | det |
| 10 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rage | det |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threatened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threatened | cc |
| 17 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 flew | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kick | mark |
| 19 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 threatened | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kick | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kick | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the miller | into a rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | ||||
| 4 | threaten | participle | the miller not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | kick not said to happen | to-infinitive | the miller not said here | Rudy | the house | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient out house=Location |
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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