Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 46

Rudy gazed on the young maiden; it was Annette, and yet it was not Annette; still less did he suppose it was the spectral phantom, whom he had met near Grindelwald.

Who acts: Rudy, stream · What happens: gaze, be, not be, suppose, meet · To what, where: Annette, spectral phantom, Grindelwald · Speech: someone speaks here

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, stream), 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 gazed	nsubj
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 maiden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 maiden	amod
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gazed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Annette	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Annette	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Annette	cop
10	Annette	Annette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gazed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Annette	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Annette	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 Annette	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Annette	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Annette	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 Annette	advmod
17	Annette	Annette	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Annette	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 suppose	punct
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 less	advmod
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 suppose	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 suppose	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 suppose	nsubj
23	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gazed	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 phantom	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 phantom	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 phantom	det
27	spectral	spectral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 phantom	amod
28	phantom	phantom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suppose	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 met	punct
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 met	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 met	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 met	aux
33	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 phantom	acl:relcl
34	near	near	ADP	_	35 Grindelwald	case
35	Grindelwald	Grindelwald	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 met	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	Rudy				on the young maiden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on maiden=Theme
2	is a	past	stream	Annette and Annette				tree rules
3	not is a	past	stream	Annette		yet		tree rules
4	suppose	past · do-support	Rudy				less property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	stream	the spectral phantom				tree rules
6	meet	past · perfect	Rudy	the spectral phantom	Grindelwald			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-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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