Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 25
Afterwards he was sent over to ask the little boy if he would not like to pay a visit himself.
Who acts: attendant · What happens: send over, ask, not like, pay · To what, where: attendant, little boy, visit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendant), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 like | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pay | mark |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 visit | det |
| 19 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pay | obj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send over | past · passive | attendant | afterwards, over property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not like a condition, not said to happen | would | attendant | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | attendant not said here | a visit | attendant obl:unmarked | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
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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