Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 99
There was a large party at the mansion; many guests from the neighbourhood and from the capital had arrived.
Who acts: large party · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: many guests
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 (large party), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 party | amod |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 mansion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mansion | det |
| 8 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 guests | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 guests | amod |
| 11 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 neighbourhood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighbourhood | det |
| 14 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guests | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 capital | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neighbourhood | conj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arrived | aux |
| 20 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a large party at the mansion | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | many guests from the neighbourhood and the capital | tree rules |
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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