Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 26
How dreadful it would be, thought Babette, if Rudy were here in the house.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: think, be · To what, where: dreadful, 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 (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 dreadful | advmod |
| 2 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | aux:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 here | mark |
| 11 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 here | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 thought | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 here | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would · passive | dreadful | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Rudy | the house | here property | 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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