Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 37
"I have not deserved this," said Rudy, as he turned away, his cheeks burning, and his heart like fire.
Who acts: Rudy, cheeks · What happens: not deserve, say, turn away, burn · To what, where: this, heart · 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 (Rudy, cheeks), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deserved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserved | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deserved | advmod |
| 5 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 deserved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 burning | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 burning | nsubj |
| 19 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 turned | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heart | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heart | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burning | obl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve in a quote | present · perfect | Rudy | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn away | past | Rudy | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | Rudy's cheeks | Rudy's heart like fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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