Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 10

There were several purchases to be made, and he was sent to carry them on board.

Who acts: several purchases · What happens: be, make, send, carry · To what, where: boy, purchases, board

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several purchases), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purchases	amod
4	purchases	purchase	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 made	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purchases	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 board	case
17	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	several purchases		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive · passive	several purchases not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	send	past · passive		boy		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive		purchases = purchase	board	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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