Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 19
They ordered the pedlar to come up, but only to make fun of him.
Who acts: squires, pedlar · What happens: order, come up, make · To what, where: pedlar, fun
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 (squires, pedlar), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pedlar | det |
| 4 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 come | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 make | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | parataxis |
| 13 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fun | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | squires = squire | the pedlar | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pedlar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the pedlar not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | fun of child | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
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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