Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 10
"Because I held fast," answered Rudy; "and I mean to hold fast to Babette."
Who acts: Rudy, miller · What happens: hold, answer, mean · To what, where: Babette · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 held | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 held | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | conj |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mean | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hold | mark |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mean | xcomp |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 hold | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Babette | case |
| 19 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | past | Rudy | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | the miller = miller | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the miller = miller not said here | Babette | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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