Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 114
The chamberlains went out to have a talk on the matter, and the ladies'-maids invited company to take coffee.
Who acts: chamberlains, maids · What happens: go out, have, invite, company, take · To what, where: talk, matter, coffee
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlains, maids), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chamberlains | det |
| 2 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 talk | det |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 matter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 company | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 company | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ladies | det |
| 15 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 maids | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 ladies | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 maids | punct |
| 18 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 company | nsubj |
| 19 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 company | amod |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 company | acl |
| 23 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the chamberlains | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the chamberlains not said here | a talk | the matter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient | |||
| 3 | invite | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | company | the ladies's maids | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | the chamberlains not said here | coffee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme |
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: «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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