Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 2
Babette was just thinking of preparing some trout to set before him.
Who acts: Babette · What happens: think, prepare, set · To what, where: trout
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 (Babette), 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 preparing | mark |
| 6 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 thinking | advcl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 trout | det |
| 8 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preparing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trout | acl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Babette | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | prepare | gerund | Babette not said here | some trout | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | Babette not said here | some trout not said here | before Babette | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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