Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 113
So he had to be invited again; and he was invited, and came, and was charming again; he could even play chess.
Who acts: General · What happens: have, invite, come, charm, play · To what, where: General, chess
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 invited | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invited | aux:pass |
| 6 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 invited | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 invited | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invited | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 invited | aux:pass |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 invited | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 charming | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 charming | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 charming | aux |
| 19 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 charming | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 play | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 play | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 play | aux |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 play | advmod |
| 25 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 play | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | General | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive · passive | General not said here | again | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 3 | invite | past · passive | General | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | charm | past · progressive | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | play | could | General | chess | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=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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