Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 10
Rudy knew nothing of fever, or any other ailment.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: know · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fever | case |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ailment | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 ailment | cc |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 ailment | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ailment | amod |
| 10 | ailment | ailment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Rudy | nothing | any other ailment obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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