Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 81
They say he was a very learned man, a great favourite with the princes and princesses, and was invited to all court festivities.
Who acts: grandfather, baron · What happens: say, be, invite · To what, where: learned man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grandfather, baron), 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 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 learned | advmod |
| 7 | learned | learned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 favourite | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 favourite | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 favourite | amod |
| 12 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 princes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princes | det |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 favourite | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 princesses | cc |
| 17 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 princes | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 invited | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 invited | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 invited | aux:pass |
| 21 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 say | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 festivities | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 festivities | det |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 festivities | compound |
| 25 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 invited | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | grandfather | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | baron | a learned man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | invite | past · passive | grandfather not said here | to all court festivities | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» |
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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