Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 5
Babette may fall in love with the red whiskers, if she likes, but he has not been here since he tried to get on the roof."
Who acts: Babette, cat, Rudy · What happens: fall, like, not be, try, get · To what, where: love, roof
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 (Babette, cat, 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 love | case |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 whiskers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whiskers | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whiskers | amod |
| 9 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fall | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 likes | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 likes | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 likes | nsubj |
| 13 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tried | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 here | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 here | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 here | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 here | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 here | cop |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 tried | advmod |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 tried | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tried | nsubj |
| 23 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 likes | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tried | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 roof | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roof | det |
| 28 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | may | Babette | love | with the red whiskers | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | cat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not is | present · perfect | Rudy | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | past | Rudy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | the roof | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on roof=Source |
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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