Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 1
Rudy left Bex, and took his way home along the mountain path.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: leave, take · To what, where: Bex, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 path | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 path | compound |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Rudy | Bex | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bex=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Rudy not said here | Rudy's way | along the mountain path; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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