Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 31
Babette opened the window in alarm, and called Rudy's name; she told him to go away, she did not wish him to remain there.
Who acts: Babette, dreadful, Rudy · What happens: open, call, tell, go away, not wish, remain · To what, where: window, alarm, name, Rudy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, dreadful, 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 alarm | case |
| 6 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Rudy | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | xcomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wish | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 wish | advmod |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 remain | mark |
| 27 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | xcomp |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 remain | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Babette | the window | alarm | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent window=Theme in alarm=Location | |||
| 2 | call | past | Babette not said here | Rudy's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | dreadful | Rudy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | dreadful not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not wish | past · do-support | dreadful | Rudy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | dreadful not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | name | Rudy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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