Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 6

Sunday came, but when Knud arrived, they were all unfortunately invited out to spend the evening, and were obliged to tell him so.

Who acts: Sunday, Knud, heart · What happens: come, arrive, invite out, spend, oblige, tell · To what, where: heart, Knud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (Sunday, Knud, heart), 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	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 arrived	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 arrived	cc
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 arrived	advmod
6	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	nsubj
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 invited	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 invited	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 invited	aux:pass
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 invited	advmod
12	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	13 invited	advmod
13	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 invited	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 spend	mark
16	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 invited	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spend	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 obliged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 obliged	cc
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 obliged	aux:pass
22	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 obliged	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	so	so	ADV	_	24 tell	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sunday					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	Knud					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	invite out	past · passive		heart			all, unfortunately property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive	heart not said here			evening		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	oblige	past · passive	Sunday not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Sunday not said here		Knud			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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