Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 58
Rudy shivered with cold; he was wet through to the skin; and his ring was gone,--the betrothal ring that Babette had given him.
Who acts: Rudy, ring · What happens: shiver, be, give · To what, where: betrothal ring
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, ring), 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 shivered | nsubj |
| 2 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 cold | case |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shivered | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 wet | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wet | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wet | cop |
| 8 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shivered | parataxis |
| 9 | through | through | ADV | _ | 8 wet | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wet | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gone | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ring | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shivered | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 given | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 given | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ring | det |
| 22 | betrothal | betrothal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ring | amod |
| 23 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 given | mark |
| 25 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 given | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 given | aux |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gone | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 given | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | past | Rudy | with cold | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rudy | to the skin; through, wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Rudy's ring | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | the betrothal ring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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