Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 7

In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited--a very large party, in order, as is often the case, to get a return invitation from the others.

Who acts: new market, one · What happens: invite, be, get · To what, where: party, case, return invitation, others

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new market, one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 case	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 houses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 houses	det
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 houses	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 market	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 market	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 market	amod
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 far	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 party	det
13	party	party	NOUN	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	11 market	acl:relcl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 party	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 party	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 party	amod
20	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 houses	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 order	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 order	case
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 houses	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	2 one	fixed
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 case	cop
27	often	often	ADV	_	29 case	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 case	det
29	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 case	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 invitation	det
34	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 invitation	compound
35	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 others	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 others	det
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 invitation	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 case	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	invite	past · passive	the new market not said here	a party			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	present	one of the houses and a large party and order	the case		often property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	one of the houses and a large party and order not said here	a return invitation	the others		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme from other=Source

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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