Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 65
Again there was a feast, but it was not in the General's house, it was a fancy ball at the Prince's, and masks were allowed too.
Who acts: feast · What happens: be, not be, allow · To what, where: house, fancy ball, masks
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 (feast), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 house | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 house | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 house | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 house | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 General | det |
| 13 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 General | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ball | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ball | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ball | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ball | det |
| 20 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ball | amod |
| 21 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Prince | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Prince | det |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ball | nmod |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Prince | case |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 allowed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 allowed | cc |
| 28 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 allowed | aux:pass |
| 30 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | conj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 allowed | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a feast | there | again | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | past | feast | the General's house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | feast | a fancy ball | at the Prince | tree rules | |||
| 4 | allow | past · passive | masks | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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