Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 1
When Rudy went a few days after to pay a visit to the mill, he found the young Englishman there.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: go, pay, find · To what, where: visit, young Englishman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 pay | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pay | mark |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 visit | det |
| 11 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mill | det |
| 14 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visit | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Englishman | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Englishman | amod |
| 20 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 found | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Rudy | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | a visit | to the mill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 3 | find | past | Rudy | the young Englishman | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent englishman=Topic |
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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