Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 15
Then Rudy had to describe his adventure, and the miller's eyes opened wide as he listened.
Who acts: Rudy, eyes · What happens: have, describe, open, listen, adventure · To what, where: adventure
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, eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 describe | mark |
| 5 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opened | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 miller | det |
| 11 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 miller | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 opened | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 listened | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 listened | nsubj |
| 18 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 opened | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rudy | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | Rudy's adventure | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the miller's eyes | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | listen | past | Rudy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | adventure | Rudy | nom adventure «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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