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title: Rudy, who was usually so lively and brave, did not in the least feel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy, who was usually so lively and brave, did not in the least feel himself at home; he acted as if he were walking on peas, over a slippery floor. Who acts: Rudy, least, Savoy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 23

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Rudy, who was usually so lively and brave, did not in the least feel himself at home; he acted as if he were walking on peas, over a slippery floor.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, least, Savoy · **What happens:** be, not feel, act, walk · **To what, where:** Savoy, home, peas

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, least, Savoy), 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:pg27200:61:23
# text = Rudy, who was usually so lively and brave, did not in the least feel himself at home; he acted as if he were walking on peas, over a slippery floor.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | lively, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | the least | Savoy |  | home |  | Rudy *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at home=Location |
| 4 | **act** | past | Savoy |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **walk** | past · progressive | Savoy |  |  | peas |  | over a slippery floor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pea=Trajectory |

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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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