Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 9
Rudy walked hurriedly, while the clouds of mist gathered round him.
Who acts: Rudy, clouds · What happens: walk, gather, cloud · To what, where: mist
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, clouds), 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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 gathered | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mist | case |
| 9 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clouds | nmod |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gathered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Rudy | hurriedly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather | past | the clouds of mist | round Rudy | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cloud | mist | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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