Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 9

And on Wednesday, about noon, Knud received a sealed packet with no address, but the ticket was inside; and in the evening Knud went, for the first time in his life, to a theatre.

Who acts: Knud, ticket · What happens: receive, seal, be, go · To what, where: sealed packet, theatre

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 (Knud, ticket), 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	_	9 received	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Wednesday	case
3	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 received	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 noon	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 noon	advmod
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wednesday	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Wednesday	punct
8	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 received	nsubj
9	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 packet	det
11	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 packet	amod
12	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 received	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 address	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 address	det
15	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 packet	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 inside	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 inside	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ticket	det
19	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 inside	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 inside	cop
21	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 received	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 evening	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 evening	det
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
27	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 received	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 time	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 life	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 life	nmod:poss
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 theatre	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 theatre	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 theatre	det
40	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	Knud	a sealed packet		wednesday	with no address	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme
2	seal	participle						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the ticket				inside property	tree rules
4	go	past	Knud		a theatre	evening; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location

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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