Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 13

One morning George was sent up to carry the General the letters and newspapers that had been delivered at the porter's room in the morning.

What happens: send up, carry, deliver · To what, where: One morning, General, letters, room

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: 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 sent	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 General	det
10	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 letters	det
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 newspapers	cc
14	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 letters	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 delivered	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 delivered	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 delivered	aux:pass
18	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 letters	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	23 room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 porter	det
21	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 porter	case
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 delivered	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 morning	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	send up	past · passive	One morning			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	carry	to-infinitive		the General		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme general=Beneficiary letter=Value
3	deliver	past · perfect · passive	the letters and newspapers		the porter's room in the morning	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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