Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 112
The General talked of this dinner, talked of it even to a court lady; and this lady, one of the most intellectual persons about the court, asked to be invited to meet the Professor the next time he should come.
Who acts: General · What happens: talk, ask, invite, meet, come · To what, where: Professor, next time · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 General | det |
| 2 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dinner | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 dinner | det |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 talked | punct |
| 8 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 talked | obl |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 lady | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lady | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lady | compound |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talked | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lady | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lady | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 lady | det |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 lady | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 persons | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 persons | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 intellectual | advmod |
| 25 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 persons | amod |
| 26 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 court | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 court | det |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 persons | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 invited | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 invited | aux:pass |
| 34 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 asked | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 meet | mark |
| 36 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 invited | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Professor | det |
| 38 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 meet | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 come | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 come | aux |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 time | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the General | of this dinner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | the General not said here | of dinner; to a court lady | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to lady=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the General not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | invite not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Professor | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent professor=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | come | should | General | the next time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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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