--- title: And now Rudy is gone, and Babette sits and weeps, while the miller s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And now Rudy is gone, and Babette sits and weeps, while the miller sings German songs that he learnt on his journey; but I do not trouble myself on the matter,--it would be of no use." Who acts: Rudy, Babette, miller, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Babette, miller, I), 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:pg27200:57:72 # text = And now Rudy is gone, and Babette sits and weeps, while the miller sings German songs that he learnt on his journey; but I do not trouble myself on the matter,--it would be of no use." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 weeps weep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 learnt learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 31 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Rudy | | | | now | gone *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | present | Babette | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **weep** | present | Babette *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the miller | German songs | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | past | Rudy | | | Rudy's journey | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **trouble** | present · do-support | I | myself | | the matter | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | would | matter | | | | | of no use | tree rules | | 8 | **journey** | | Rudy | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/73/) - ↑ back to [VI. the Visit to the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/)