Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 47
But there was a great ball in the city, to which Karen was invited.
What happens: be, invite · To what, where: great ball, city, Karen
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 ball | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ball | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ball | amod |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ball | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 invited | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 invited | obl |
| 13 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 invited | aux:pass |
| 15 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ball | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ball | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great ball | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | Karen | to a great ball | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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