Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 71

It was decided that John should come to the palace the next day, when the judges and the whole of the counsellors would be present, to try if he could guess the first riddle.

Who acts: John, judges · What happens: decide, come, be, try, guess · To what, where: hall, palace, first riddle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, judges), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decided	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 decided	aux:pass
3	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decided	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 palace	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 present	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 present	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 judges	det
17	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 present	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 whole	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 whole	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 judges	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 counsellors	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 counsellors	det
23	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 whole	obl
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 present	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 present	cop
26	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 palace	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 try	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 try	mark
29	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 guess	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 guess	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 guess	aux
33	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 try	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 riddle	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 riddle	amod
36	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 guess	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past · passive		hall			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	should	John		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
3	is	would	the judges			present property	tree rules
4	try	to-infinitive	John not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	guess a condition, not said to happen	could	John	the first riddle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=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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