Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 178
The brothers came forward affectionately to welcome him, and his inauguration was as a Sunday feast.
Who acts: brothers, inauguration, Brother · What happens: come forward, welcome, be, inaugurate · To what, where: Brother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, inauguration, Brother), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | affectionately | affectionately | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 welcome | mark |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 welcome | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feast | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feast | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 inauguration | nmod:poss |
| 12 | inauguration | inauguration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feast | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feast | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 feast | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 16 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 feast | compound |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | the brothers | affectionately, forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | welcome | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | Brother | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Brother's inauguration | as a Sunday feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inaugurate | Brother | nom inauguration «act transitive»: poss=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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