Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 30

"I will fetch it back," said Rudy; throwing off his coat and boots, he sprang into the lake, and swam with strong efforts towards it.

Who acts: Rudy · What happens: fetch back, say, throw off, spring, swim · To what, where: island, coat, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fetch	aux
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 fetch	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 throwing	punct
12	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 throwing	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throwing	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 boots	cc
17	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 coat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sprang	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sprang	nsubj
20	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 lake	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lake	det
23	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sprang	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swam	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 swam	cc
26	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sprang	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 efforts	case
28	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 efforts	amod
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swam	obl
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swam	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fetch back in a quote	future	Rudy	island			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Rudy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw off	gerund	Rudy not said here	Rudy's coat and boots			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
4	spring	past	Rudy		the lake		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination
5	swim	past	Rudy not said here		island	with strong efforts	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination

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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