Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 28
No, it was much worse, he was outside, standing just under the linden-tree.
Who acts: fastening, Rudy · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: linden tree
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 (fastening, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 worse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 worse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worse | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 worse | advmod |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 outside | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 outside | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 outside | cop |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 worse | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 standing | punct |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 worse | advcl |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 tree | advmod |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 16 | linden | linden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 linden | punct |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fastening | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rudy | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | fastening not said here | the linden tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
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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