Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 13
She dreamt that she had been married to Rudy for many years, and that, one day when he was out chamois hunting, and she alone in their dwelling at home, the young Englishman with the golden whiskers sat with her.
Who acts: Babette, that, Rudy, dwelling · What happens: dreamt, marry, day, be, sit · To what, where: Babette, Rudy, chamois hunting
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, that, Rudy, dwelling), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dreamt | nsubj |
| 2 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 married | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dreamt | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Rudy | case |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 day | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dreamt | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 hunting | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hunting | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hunting | cop |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 was | compound:prt |
| 23 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hunting | compound |
| 24 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dwelling | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dwelling | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dwelling | nsubj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 31 dwelling | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 dwelling | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sat | nsubj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwelling | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Englishman | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Englishman | det |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Englishman | amod |
| 37 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dwelling | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 whiskers | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 whiskers | det |
| 40 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 whiskers | amod |
| 41 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Englishman | nmod |
| 42 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dreamt | parataxis |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sat | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | past | Babette | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect · passive | Babette | Rudy | year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to rudy=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | day | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | Rudy | chamois hunting | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | visions's dwelling at home and the young Englishman with the golden whiskers | with Babette | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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