Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 46
Emily had now been to a court ball for the first time.
Who acts: Emily · What happens: have, be
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 (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 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 ball | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 ball | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | compound |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Emily | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | now; time | to a court ball | tree rules |
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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