Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 207
Here he was invited to take a mug of brown beer with treacle and sugar.
Who acts: Norway · What happens: invite, take · To what, where: Norway, mug
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norway), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 invited | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | aux:pass |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invited | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mug | det |
| 8 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beer | case |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beer | amod |
| 11 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mug | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 treacle | case |
| 13 | treacle | treacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beer | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sugar | cc |
| 15 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treacle | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · passive | Norway | here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Norway not said here | a mug of brown beer with treacle and sugar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mug=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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