--- title: Then the cat jumped down and ran away; he did not wish Rudy to see t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the cat jumped down and ran away; he did not wish Rudy to see that there were tears in his eyes. Who acts: cat, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/) / 23 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 23 Then the cat jumped down and ran away; he did not wish Rudy to see that there were tears in his eyes. **Who acts:** cat, tears · **What happens:** jump down, run away, not wish, see, be · **To what, where:** Rudy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, tears), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:53:23 # text = Then the cat jumped down and ran away; he did not wish Rudy to see that there were tears in his eyes. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 14 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump down** | past | the cat | | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run away** | past | the cat *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | cat | Rudy | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rudy=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | tears in Rudy's eyes | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/24/) - ↑ back to [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/)