Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 59
And she was invited to the concert in the evening--the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices; we know the sort of thing.
Who acts: we · What happens: invite, know, sort · To what, where: dust, sort, thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 invited | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | aux:pass |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 concert | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 concert | det |
| 7 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concert | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 concert | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 concert | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concert | compound |
| 14 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concert | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 enthusiasm | punct |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 enthusiasm | amod |
| 17 | enthusiasm | enthusiasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 voices | cc |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voices | amod |
| 20 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 enthusiasm | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sort | det |
| 25 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 thing | case |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sort | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · passive | dust | to the concert in the evening and the family concert; great enthusiasm and thin voices obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | we | the sort of thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sort | thing | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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