Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 86
She went to the parsonage, and begged that she might be taken into service there.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: go, beg, take · To what, where: parsonage, Karen, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Karen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 parsonage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 parsonage | det |
| 5 | parsonage | parsonage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 taken | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taken | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 begged | ccomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 service | case |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 taken | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Karen | the parsonage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parsonage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Karen not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | might · passive | Karen | service; there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into service=Destination |
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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