Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 20
O my God, it would have been a mercy and a blessing had Rudy travelled far away from me, and I had never known him.
Who acts: agony, God, Rudy, I · What happens: be, have, travel, not know · To what, where: mercy, Rudy
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 (agony, God, Rudy, I), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 God | discourse |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 God | nmod:poss |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mercy | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mercy | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 mercy | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mercy | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 mercy | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mercy | det |
| 10 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blessing | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blessing | det |
| 13 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mercy | conj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 travelled | nsubj |
| 16 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | ccomp |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 travelled | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 away | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 known | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 known | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 known | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 known | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 known | advmod |
| 26 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 had | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 known | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would · perfect | agony | a mercy and a blessing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | my God | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | Rudy | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · perfect | I | Rudy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=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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