Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 21

At the invasion of the English in 1807, an encounter of a no very glorious nature took place between the British troops and the undisciplined Danish militia.

Who acts: encounter · What happens: take, invade, encounter · To what, where: place, 1807, English, glorious nature

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (encounter), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 invasion	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 invasion	det
3	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 1807	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 English	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 English	det
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invasion	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1807	case
8	1807	1807	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 encounter	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 encounter	det
11	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 nature	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 nature	det
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 nature	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 glorious	advmod
16	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nature	amod
17	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 encounter	nmod
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
20	between	between	ADP	_	23 troops	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 troops	det
22	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 troops	amod
23	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 place	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 militia	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 militia	det
26	undisciplined	undisciplined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 militia	amod
27	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 militia	amod
28	militia	militia	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	a encounter of a glorious nature	place and the undisciplined Danish militia	1807	between the British troops	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in 1807=Location
2	invade			the English			nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient
3	encounter			a glorious nature			nom encounter «act 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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