Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 17

But for the feast the company must be carefully selected; we can only admit persons of high rank; I have had a dispute myself with the elf king, as he thought we could not admit ghosts.

Who acts: we, I, king · What happens: select, admit, have, think, not admit · To what, where: company, persons, dispute, ghosts · 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 (we, I, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 selected	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 feast	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 selected	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 company	det
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 selected	nsubj:pass
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 selected	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 selected	aux:pass
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 selected	advmod
10	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 admit	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 admit	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 admit	aux
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 admit	advmod
15	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 selected	conj
16	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 admit	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 rank	case
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rank	amod
19	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 persons	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 had	aux
23	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 admit	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dispute	det
25	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 had	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 king	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
29	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 king	compound
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 thought	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	conj
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 admit	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 admit	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 admit	advmod
38	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thought	ccomp
39	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 admit	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	must · passive		the company	for the feast; carefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	admit speech: other	can	we	persons of high rank		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
3	have	present · perfect	I	a dispute	with the elf king; myself obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	king			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not admit speech: other	could	we	ghosts		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=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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