Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 104

Little Emily was highly pleased, and consequently, when a week had elapsed, George sent her a few more pictures, all with buildings in them; for, you see, she could imagine all sorts of things inside the windows and doors.

Who acts: Little Emily, George, you, Emily · What happens: be, elapse, send, see, imagine, sort · To what, where: week, few more pictures, Emily, sorts, things

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, 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 (Little Emily, George, you, Emily), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Emily	amod
2	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	highly	highly	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 elapsed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 elapsed	cc
8	consequently	consequently	ADV	_	14 elapsed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 elapsed	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 elapsed	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 elapsed	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 elapsed	aux
14	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pleased	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
16	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sent	nsubj
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sent	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pictures	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pictures	amod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 pictures	amod
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sent	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 buildings	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 buildings	det
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 buildings	case
26	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pictures	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 buildings	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 imagine	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 see	mark
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 imagine	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 imagine	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 imagine	aux
37	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	conj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 sorts	det
39	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 imagine	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 things	case
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sorts	nmod
42	inside	inside	ADP	_	44 windows	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 windows	det
44	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 things	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 doors	cc
46	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 windows	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Little Emily			highly, pleased property	tree rules
2	elapse	past · perfect · passive		a week		consequently property	tree rules
3	send	past	George	a few more pictures and all buildings in pictures	Emily		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination picture=Theme
4	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	imagine	could	Emily	all sorts of things inside the windows and doors			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme
6	sort			things inside the windows and doors			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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