Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 11
But, while he judged Babette, he began to examine his own conduct.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: judge, begin, examine, conduct · To what, where: Babette, own conduct
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 judged | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 judged | nsubj |
| 5 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | advcl |
| 6 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 judged | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 judged | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 examine | mark |
| 11 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conduct | amod |
| 14 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 examine | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | past | Rudy | Babette | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent babette=Value | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Rudy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | examine | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | Rudy's own conduct | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conduct | Rudy | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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