Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 118
Mr. George was invited, and he came; princes and counts came, and they danced, one better than the other.
Who acts: George, princes, General · What happens: invite, come, dance · To what, where: George
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 (George, princes, General), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 George | nmod:desc |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | aux:pass |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 counts | cc |
| 12 | counts | count | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 princes | conj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 danced | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 danced | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 danced | nsubj |
| 17 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 better | nummod |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 danced | ccomp |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 other | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 better | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · passive | George Mr. | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | George | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | princes and counts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | past | General | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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