Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 7
They saw no one near, so they took possession of it without asking permission of any one, and Rudy could row very well.
Who acts: walls, Rudy · What happens: see, take, ask, row, possess, permit · To what, where: one, possession, permission, island
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 (walls, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 10 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 possession | nmod |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 asking | mark |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 15 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 permission | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 row | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 row | cc |
| 21 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 row | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 row | aux |
| 23 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 row | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | walls = wall | no one | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | walls = wall | possession of island | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | walls = wall not said here | permission of any one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | row | could | Rudy | well property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | possess | island | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | permit | any one | nom permission «communication 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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