Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 10
Rudy swung Babette round two or three times; and then, hand-in-hand, they sat down on a little bench under the drooping acacia-tree, and looked into each other's eyes, while everything around them glowed in the rays of the setting sun.
Who acts: Rudy, oars, everything · What happens: swing, sit down, droop, look, glow, ray · To what, where: Babette, hand hand, rays, setting sun.
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, oars, everything), 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 | 2 swung | nsubj |
| 2 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swung | obj |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 two | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | conj |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swung | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hand | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 then | punct |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hand | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hand | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swung | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 bench | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bench | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bench | amod |
| 25 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 28 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 tree | amod |
| 29 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tree | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 acacia | punct |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 looked | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looked | cc |
| 34 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swung | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 36 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 eyes | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 eyes | amod |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 other | case |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 looked | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 glowed | punct |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 45 glowed | mark |
| 42 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 45 glowed | nsubj |
| 43 | around | around | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 everything | nmod |
| 45 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swung | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 rays | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 rays | det |
| 48 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 glowed | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 sun. | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sun. | det |
| 51 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 sun. | compound |
| 52 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rays | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | Rudy | Babette | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent babette=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | oars = oar | hand hand | on a little bench; under the drooping acacia tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | droop | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | Rudy not said here | into each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | glow | past | everything | the rays of the setting sun. | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location | ||||
| 6 | ray | the setting sun. | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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