Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 123
The young man came, no doubt, to return thanks for the invitation to the ball.
Who acts: young man · What happens: come, return · To what, where: doubt, thanks
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 (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doubt | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 doubt | det |
| 7 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 invitation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 invitation | det |
| 14 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ball | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 invitation | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the young man | no doubt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | thanks | for the invitation to the ball | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=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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