Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 39

Nothing could be finer than their clothes, and they invited me to be present at the feast; but I was to keep at a certain distance, because I was too large for them.

Who acts: Nothing, elves, I · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: me, feast

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, elves, I), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 finer	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 finer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 finer	cop
4	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 clothes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clothes	nmod:poss
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 finer	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 invited	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 invited	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 invited	nsubj
11	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finer	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 invited	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 present	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 present	cop
15	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 invited	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 feast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feast	det
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 present	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 keep	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 keep	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 keep	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 keep	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 invited	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 distance	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 distance	det
27	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distance	amod
28	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 large	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 large	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 large	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 large	cop
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 large	advmod
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keep	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 large	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	could	Nothing			than elves's clothes; fine property	tree rules
2	invite	past	elves = elf	me			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	elves = elf not said here		the feast	present property	tree rules
4	is	past	I			at a certain distance; keep property	tree rules
5	is	past	I			for elves = elf; large property	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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