Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 13

She could almost have kissed the fair Englishman, with the golden whiskers, if by so doing she could have put Rudy in a rage, and made him run out of the house.

Who acts: She, Rudy · What happens: kiss, do, put, make, run · To what, where: fair Englishman, Rudy, rage, house

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 (She, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kissed	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kissed	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 kissed	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kissed	aux
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Englishman	det
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Englishman	amod
8	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whiskers	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 whiskers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 whiskers	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whiskers	amod
13	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kissed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 doing	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 doing	mark
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 doing	mark
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 doing	advmod
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kissed	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	aux
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 doing	acl:relcl
23	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 rage	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rage	det
26	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kissed	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	obj
31	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 made	xcomp
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 house	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 run	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	could · perfect	She	the fair Englishman		with the golden whiskers; almost property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent englishman=Experiencer with whisker=Instrument
2	do	gerund	She not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	could · perfect	she	Rudy	a rage		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rudy=Theme in rage=Destination
4	make	past	She not said here	Rudy			tree rules
5	run	infinitive	Rudy not said here		the house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=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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