Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 1

"There is what you asked for," said Rudy, as he entered the miller's house at Bex, and placed on the floor a large basket.

Who acts: you, Rudy · What happens: be, ask, say, enter, place · To what, where: house, Bex, large basket, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 asked	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 is	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 asked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 entered	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 entered	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 entered	nsubj
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 miller	det
17	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 miller	case
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Bex	case
21	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 placed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 placed	cc
24	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 floor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 basket	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 basket	amod
30	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be in a quote	present			there	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	Rudy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	enter	past	Rudy	the miller's house	Bex	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
5	place	participle	Rudy not said here	a large basket	the floor	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on floor=Destination

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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