Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 37
"He is a perfect fop," said Rudy; and this was the first time Rudy had said anything that did not please Babette.
Who acts: cousin, perfect fop, this, first time · What happens: be, say, not please · To what, where: perfect fop, first time, Rudy, Babette · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cousin, perfect fop, this, first time), 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 | _ | 6 fop | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fop | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fop | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fop | det |
| 5 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fop | amod |
| 6 | fop | fop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fop | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fop | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 time | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 18 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 said | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 please | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 please | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 please | advmod |
| 25 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 anything | acl:relcl |
| 26 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 please | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | cousin | a perfect fop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a perfect fop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the first time not said here | Rudy | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme anything=Manner | ||||
| 5 | not please | past · do-support | Babette | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus babette=Experiencer |
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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