Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 49
But there was a grand ball in the town, and Karen was invited.
Who acts: grand ball · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: Karen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand ball), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ball | amod |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ball | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 invited | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 invited | cc |
| 12 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 invited | aux:pass |
| 14 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a grand ball in the town | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | Karen | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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