Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 32
Rudy could only feel that it was a place of execution.
Who acts: Rudy, poetry · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: place
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, poetry), 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 | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 place | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 place | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 execution | case |
| 11 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | could | Rudy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | poetry | a place | of execution | tree rules |
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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