Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 110
They urged and requested him, however, so long, that at last he took up the flute and placed it to his lips.
Who acts: guests, tutor · What happens: urge, request, take up, place · To what, where: that, last, tutor, flute
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, 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 urged | nsubj |
| 2 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 requested | cc |
| 4 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 urged | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 requested | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 requested | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 urged | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 urged | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 urged | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 urged | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flute | det |
| 19 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 lips | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lips | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 placed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | guests = guest | that | last | long property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | request | past | guests = guest not said here | tutor | however property | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | take up | past | tutor | the flute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | past | tutor not said here | flute | to tutor's lips | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=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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