Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 1

In a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's new market, a very large party had assembled, the host and his family expecting, no doubt, to receive invitations in return.

Who acts: family, king · What happens: assemble, expect, receive, market · To what, where: large party, house, invitations, return

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 assembled	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Copenhagen	case
5	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 market	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 market	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	14 market	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 market	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 market	amod
14	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 party	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 party	amod
19	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 assembled	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 assembled	aux
21	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 host	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 host	det
24	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 assembled	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 family	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 family	nmod:poss
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 host	conj
28	expecting	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 family	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 doubt	punct
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 doubt	det
31	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 host	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 receive	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 receive	mark
34	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 assembled	conj
35	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 receive	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 return	case
37	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 receive	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	assemble	past · perfect · passive		a large party	a house in Copenhagen from the king's new market	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary host=Product
2	expect	gerund	king's family not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	receive	to-infinitive		invitations	return	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme in return=Location
4	market		the king			nom market «act transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/40/1/