Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 109

They wished to tease him--that was evident, and therefore the tutor declined to play, although he could do so very well.

Who acts: guests, that, tutor · What happens: wish, tease, be, decline, not play, do · To what, where: tutor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, that, tutor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tease	mark
4	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tease	obj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 evident	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 evident	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 evident	cop
9	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wished	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 declined	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 declined	cc
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	15 declined	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tutor	det
14	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 declined	nsubj
15	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 declined	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
19	although	although	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 play	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 well	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 well	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 do	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	guests = guest			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tease not said to happen	to-infinitive	guests = guest not said here	tutor		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is	past	that		evident property	tree rules
4	decline	past	the tutor		therefore property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not play	to-infinitive	the tutor not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	could	tutor		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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