Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 84

In the evening John's comrade prepared a large bowl of punch, and said, "Now let us be merry, and drink to the health of the princess."

Who acts: comrade, us · What happens: prepare, say, let, be, drink · To what, where: large bowl, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (comrade, us), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	obl
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 comrade	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 John	case
6	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	nsubj
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bowl	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bowl	amod
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 punch	case
12	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bowl	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prepared	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
18	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 let	advmod
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 merry	cop
22	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 let	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drink	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drink	cc
25	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 health	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 health	det
28	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 princess	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 health	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prepared	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	John's comrade	a large bowl of punch	evening		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	John's comrade not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	is in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			merry property	tree rules
5	drink in a quote	infinitive				to the health of the princess	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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