Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 72

And now Rudy is gone, and Babette sits and weeps, while the miller sings German songs that he learnt on his journey; but I do not trouble myself on the matter,--it would be of no use."

Who acts: Rudy, Babette, miller, I, matter · What happens: be, sit, weep, sing, learn, not trouble · To what, where: German songs, journey, myself, matter

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, Babette, miller, I), 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	_	5 gone	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gone	advmod
3	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sits	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sits	cc
8	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sits	nsubj
9	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weeps	cc
11	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sits	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sings	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 sings	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miller	det
15	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sings	nsubj
16	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sits	conj
17	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 songs	amod
18	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sings	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 learnt	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 learnt	nsubj
21	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sings	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 journey	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 journey	nmod:poss
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learnt	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 trouble	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 trouble	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 trouble	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 trouble	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 trouble	advmod
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	conj
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	30 trouble	obl:unmarked
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 matter	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 matter	det
34	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trouble	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 use	punct
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 use	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 use	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 use	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 use	cop
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 use	case
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 use	det
42	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trouble	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rudy			now	gone property	tree rules
2	sit	present	Babette					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	present	Babette not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	present	the miller	German songs				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	learn	past	Rudy		Rudy's journey			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not trouble	present · do-support	I	myself	the matter			tree rules
7	is	would	matter				of no use	tree rules
8	journey		Rudy					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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