Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 52

And perhaps it was very amusing, for, five years afterwards, when Marie had fulfilled her seventeenth year, a messenger arrived with a letter, in which Lord Gyldenlowe proposed for the hand of the noble young lady.

Who acts: box, Marie, Lord · What happens: be, fulfil, arrive, propose · To what, where: messenger

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 (box, Marie, Lord), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 amusing	cc
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 amusing	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 amusing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amusing	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 amusing	advmod
6	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 years	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 for	punct
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 amusing	parataxis
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	11 years	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fulfilled	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fulfilled	advmod
15	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fulfilled	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fulfilled	aux
17	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 amusing	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 year	nmod:poss
19	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 year	compound
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fulfilled	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 messenger	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 messenger	det
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 year	appos
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 messenger	acl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 letter	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 letter	det
27	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 proposed	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 proposed	obl
31	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 proposed	nsubj
32	Gyldenlowe	Gyldenlowe	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Lord	flat
33	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fulfilled	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 hand	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hand	det
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 proposed	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 lady	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lady	det
39	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lady	amod
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lady	amod
41	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hand	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 amusing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	box			amusing, perhaps property	tree rules
2	fulfil	past · perfect	Marie		year		tree rules
3	arrive	participle		a messenger not said here		with a letter	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	propose	past	Lord			for the hand of the noble young lady	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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