Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 107
Now, there was a company to dinner at the General's, but only the old Count and his protege were invited.
Who acts: company · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: old Count
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 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 company | det |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dinner | mark |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 company | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 General | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 General | det |
| 11 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dinner | nmod |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 General | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 invited | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 invited | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 Count | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Count | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Count | amod |
| 18 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 protege | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 protege | nmod:poss |
| 21 | protege | protege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Count | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 invited | aux:pass |
| 23 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 was | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a company and dinner at the General | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | the old Count and Count's protege | 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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