Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 23

Seven times have I already had the honor to be present at the distribution of the prizes, and to vote; but to-day is the first time I have been able to carry out my will.

Who acts: Seven times, I · What happens: have, be, vote, carry out, distribute · To what, where: honor, distribution, first time, prizes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven times, I), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 honor	det
8	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 present	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 present	cop
11	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honor	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 distribution	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 distribution	det
14	distribution	distribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 present	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 prizes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prizes	det
17	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 distribution	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 vote	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vote	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 vote	mark
21	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 time	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 time	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 to	punct
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 time	obl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 time	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl:unmarked
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 able	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 carry	mark
36	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 carry	compound:prt
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 will	nmod:poss
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 carry	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Seven times					tree rules
2	have	past	I	the honor				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Patient
3	is	to-infinitive	I not said here	the honor not said here	the distribution of the prizes		present property	tree rules
4	vote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		the first time		day		tree rules
6	is	present · perfect	I	the first time not said here			able property	tree rules
7	carry out	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	distribute			the prizes				nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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