Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 13

"You are invited to the elf hill for this evening," said she; "but will you do me a great favor and undertake the invitations? you ought to do something, for you have no housekeeping to attend to as I have.

Who acts: maiden, you · What happens: invite, say, do, undertake, have, attend · To what, where: You, great favor, maiden, invitations, something, housekeeping · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 invited	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 invited	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invited	aux:pass
4	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
7	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hill	compound
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invited	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 evening	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invited	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 invited	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 invited	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 but	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 favor	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 favor	amod
25	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 undertake	cc
27	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 do	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 invitations	det
29	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 undertake	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
32	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 do	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 have	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 do	parataxis
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 housekeeping	det
41	housekeeping	housekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 attend	mark
43	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 housekeeping	acl
44	to	to	ADP	_	43 attend	obl
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 have	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 have	nsubj
47	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 attend	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	invite in a quote	present · passive		You		evening	to the elf hill	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	past	maiden					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	future	you	a great favor	maiden			tree rules
4	undertake in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the invitations				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Eventuality
5	do in a quote	ought	you	something				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
6	have in a quote	present	you	no housekeeping				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housekeeping=Patient
7	attend in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	no housekeeping not said here				vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	have in a quote	present	maiden					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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