Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 60
"Where can Rudy and Babette be in this awful weather?" said the miller.
Who acts: Rudy, miller · What happens: be, say · To what, where: awful weather · 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, miller), 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 | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 said | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | aux |
| 4 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 weather | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Babette | cc |
| 6 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rudy | conj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 weather | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 weather | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 weather | det |
| 10 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weather | amod |
| 11 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miller | det |
| 16 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | Rudy and Babette | this awful weather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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