Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 28
Rudy was already in the parlor when she entered it, and they very soon started for Villeneuve.
Who acts: Rudy, smile, brows · What happens: be, enter, start · To what, where: parlor
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 (Rudy, smile, brows), 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 | 6 parlor | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 parlor | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 parlor | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 parlor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parlor | det |
| 6 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 entered | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 parlor | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 started | advmod |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 parlor | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Villeneuve | case |
| 18 | Villeneuve | Villeneuve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 parlor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rudy | the parlor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | smile | parlor | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | start | past | brows = brow | for Villeneuve; soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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