Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 51
The family had been invited by the old Count to visit him at him castle.
Who acts: old Count · What happens: invite, visit · To what, where: family, Count, him castle
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 (old Count), 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 | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 invited | aux:pass |
| 5 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Count | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Count | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Count | amod |
| 9 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 visit | mark |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 invited | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 visit | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 castle | compound |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · perfect · passive | the old Count | the family | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | the old Count not said here | Count | him castle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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