Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 116
And now there was a ball to be given in the General's house for Emily, and could Mr. George be invited to it?
Who acts: ball · What happens: be, give, invite · To what, where: house, George, ball
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ball | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 General | det |
| 12 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 General | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Emily | case |
| 16 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 invited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 invited | cc |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 invited | aux |
| 20 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 George | nmod:desc |
| 21 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 invited | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 invited | aux:pass |
| 23 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 was | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 invited | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a ball | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive · passive | a ball not said here | the General's house for Emily | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | invite | could · passive | George Mr. | ball | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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