Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 26
Two steps forward and one backwards had Rudy to take to keep pace with the others.
Who acts: one, Two steps · What happens: have, take, keep · To what, where: Two steps, pace
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 (one, Two steps), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 steps | nummod |
| 2 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 steps | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 13 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | one | Two steps | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Two steps not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Two steps not said here | pace | with the others | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=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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