Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 18
"When the performance was over, and the puppets removed behind the curtain, the Polytechnic lecturer invited me into his room to take a glass of wine.
Who acts: performance, puppets · What happens: be, remove, invite, take · To what, where: puppets, curtain, man, room, glass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (performance, puppets), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 over | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 over | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 performance | det |
| 4 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 invited | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 invited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 invited | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 puppets | det |
| 10 | puppets | puppet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 invited | nsubj |
| 11 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 puppets | acl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 curtain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 curtain | det |
| 14 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 removed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lecturer | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lecturer | det |
| 17 | Polytechnic | Polytechnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lecturer | compound |
| 18 | lecturer | lecturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 curtain | conj |
| 19 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 invited | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invited | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 invited | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 glass | det |
| 27 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wine | case |
| 29 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glass | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the performance | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remove in a quote | participle | the puppets not said here | the curtain and the Polytechnic lecturer | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | invite in a quote | past | the puppets | man | lecturer's room | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | the puppets not said here | a glass of wine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=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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