Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 1

At a rich merchant's house there was a children's party, and the children of rich and great people were there.

What happens: be · To what, where: party, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merchant	amod
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 merchant	case
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 party	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 party	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 party	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 children	case
12	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 children	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 party	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 great	cc
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rich	conj
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 there	obl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 there	cop
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 children	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 party	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a children's party		a rich merchant's house			tree rules
2	is	past						of rich people; there 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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