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title: Rudy stood so still, that it might have been supposed he was watchin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy stood so still, that it might have been supposed he was watching for a chamois; but he was in reality like a chamois, who will stand for a moment, looking as if it were chiselled out of the rock, and then, if only a stone rolled by, would suddenly bound forward with a spring, far away from the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 54

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Rudy stood so still, that it might have been supposed he was watching for a chamois; but he was in reality like a chamois, who will stand for a moment, looking as if it were chiselled out of the rock, and then, if only a stone rolled by, would suddenly bound forward with a spring, far away from the hunter.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, chamois · **What happens:** stand, suppose, watch, be, look, chisell · **To what, where:** parlor, reality, rock, stone

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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, chamois), 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:pg27200:55:54
# text = Rudy stood so still, that it might have been supposed he was watching for a chamois; but he was in reality like a chamois, who will stand for a moment, looking as if it were chiselled out of the rock, and then, if only a stone rolled by, would suddenly bound forward with a spring, far away from the hunter.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	chiselled	chisell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	advcl	_	_
53	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	bound	bound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
59	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	65	advmod	_	_
65	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
66	from	from	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Rudy |  |  |  | still | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suppose** | might · perfect · passive |  | parlor |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | past · progressive | Rudy |  |  |  |  | for a chamois | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for chamois=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Rudy |  |  | reality |  | like a chamois | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | future | a chamois |  |  |  | moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | a chamois *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **chisell** | past · passive |  | parlor |  | the rock |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **roll** | participle |  | a stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **bound** | would | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  | then; spring | forward, suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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