Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 23

Rudy, who was usually so lively and brave, did not in the least feel himself at home; he acted as if he were walking on peas, over a slippery floor.

Who acts: Rudy, least, Savoy · What happens: be, not feel, act, walk · To what, where: Savoy, home, peas

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, least, Savoy), 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	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 feel	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lively	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lively	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lively	cop
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 lively	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 lively	advmod
7	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rudy	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brave	cc
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lively	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rudy	punct
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feel	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 feel	advmod
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 feel	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 least	det
15	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 feel	nsubj
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 feel	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feel	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 acted	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 acted	nsubj
22	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feel	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 walking	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 walking	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walking	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 walking	aux
27	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 acted	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 peas	case
29	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 walking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 floor	punct
31	over	over	ADP	_	34 floor	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 floor	det
33	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 floor	amod
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 walking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rudy			lively, usually property	tree rules
2	be		Rudy not said here				tree rules
3	not feel	past · do-support	the least	Savoy	home	Rudy vocative	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at home=Location
4	act	past	Savoy				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	walk	past · progressive	Savoy		peas	over a slippery floor	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pea=Trajectory

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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