Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 10
Suddenly he found himself on the brink of a precipitous rock.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: find · To what, where: Rudy, brink
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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 brink | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brink | det |
| 7 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 10 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rock | amod |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brink | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Rudy | Rudy | the brink of a precipitous rock | suddenly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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