Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 14
Rudy and Babette felt that they had never seen the Alpine glow in such perfection before. "
Who acts: Rudy, peaks · What happens: feel, not see · To what, where: Alpine glow, such perfection
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, peaks), 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 | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Babette | cc |
| 3 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rudy | conj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glow | det |
| 11 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glow | amod |
| 12 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 perfection | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 perfection | amod |
| 15 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Rudy and Babette | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | peaks = peak | the Alpine glow | such perfection | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glow=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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