Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 27

Rudy is come back, and they are friends again, which they say is the greatest of all pleasures."

Who acts: Rudy, Babette · What happens: come back, be, say · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Babette), 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	3 come	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 friends	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 friends	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friends	cop
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 say	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 greatest	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 greatest	det
17	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 say	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pleasures	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 pleasures	det
20	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 greatest	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	Rudy		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Babette	friends			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Babette				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	is	present				of all pleasures; great property	tree rules

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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