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title: Rudy arrived at Bex, and soon finished the business which had brough… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy arrived at Bex, and soon finished the business which had brought him there, and then walked about the town; but not even the miller's boy could be seen, nor any one belonging to the mill, not to mention Babette. Who acts: Rudy, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 44

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Rudy arrived at Bex, and soon finished the business which had brought him there, and then walked about the town; but not even the miller's boy could be seen, nor any one belonging to the mill, not to mention Babette.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, one · **What happens:** arrive, finish, bring, walk, see, belong · **To what, where:** Bex, business, boy, Babette

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:55:44
# text = Rudy arrived at Bex, and soon finished the business which had brought him there, and then walked about the town; but not even the miller's boy could be seen, nor any one belonging to the mill, not to mention Babette.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bex	Bex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
46	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Rudy |  |  | Bex |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Rudy *not said here* | the business |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality business=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the business |  | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
| 4 | **walk** | past | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  | then | about the town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about town=Trajectory |
| 5 | **see** | could · passive |  | the miller's boy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **belong** | gerund | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the mill | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* | Babette |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent babette=Topic |

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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.

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**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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