Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 17

Afterwards there came a message; it was to ask if the little boy himself had not a wish to come over and pay a visit; and so he got permission of his parents, and then went over to the old house.

Who acts: it, little boy, wish, boy · What happens: come, be, have, come over, pay, get · To what, where: message, wish, visit, permission, parents

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, little boy, wish, boy), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ask	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 boy	nmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	ccomp
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 wish	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wish	det
19	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
22	over	over	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pay	cc
24	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 visit	det
26	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 got	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 got	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 got	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
32	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 parents	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 parents	nmod:poss
35	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 permission	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 went	advmod
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 got	conj
40	over	over	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 house	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 house	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 house	amod
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a message	there		afterwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location message=Theme
2	is	past	it				ask property	tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the little boy boy	a wish				tree rules
4	come over	to-infinitive	a wish not said here				over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pay	infinitive	a wish not said here	a visit				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
6	get	past	boy	permission of boy's parents				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer permission=Stimulus
7	go over	past	boy not said here			then	to the old house; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
8	permit			boy's parents				nom permission «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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