Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 113
He was received with a hearty welcome, and introduced to plenty of grand and pleasant company, where overflowing winecups were passed about.
What happens: receive, introduce, overflow, pass · To what, where: Sweetly, overflowing winecups
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 welcome | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 welcome | det |
| 6 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 welcome | compound |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 introduced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 introduced | cc |
| 10 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 received | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 plenty | case |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 introduced | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 company | case |
| 14 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 company | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pleasant | cc |
| 16 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grand | conj |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 passed | advmod |
| 20 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 winecups | amod |
| 21 | winecups | winecup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | aux:pass |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 company | acl:relcl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 passed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | Sweetly | with a hearty welcome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | introduce | participle | to plenty of grand company | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to plenty=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | overflow | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pass | past · passive | overflowing winecups | about property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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