--- title: Rudy crept here and ran there, his eyes sparkling with joy, and he s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Rudy crept here and ran there, his eyes sparkling with joy, and he stepped so firmly with his iron-tipped mountain shoe, that he left a mark behind him wherever he placed his foot. Who acts: Rudy, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Rudy, eyes), 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:pg27200:53:34 # text = Rudy crept here and ran there, his eyes sparkling with joy, and he stepped so firmly with his iron-tipped mountain shoe, that he left a mark behind him wherever he placed his foot. 1 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 21 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 tipped tip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 24 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 behind behind ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 34 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | past | Rudy | | | here | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | Rudy *not said here* | Rudy's eyes | | there | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sparkle** | gerund | Rudy's eyes *not said here* | | | | | with joy | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | | 4 | **step** | past | Rudy | | | | | with Rudy's tipped mountain shoe; firmly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tip** | participle | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | past | Rudy | a mark | | | | behind ice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme behind he=Location | | 7 | **place** | past | Rudy | ice's foot | | | | wherever *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/35/) - ↑ back to [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/)