Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 154

In the meantime a messenger had been sent to her house by the mayor, to say that she must come to him immediately, as he had something to tell her.

Who acts: mayor, banns, head · What happens: send, say, come, have, tell · To what, where: messenger, meantime, mayor, something, banns · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mayor, banns, head), 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 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 messenger	det
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sent	aux:pass
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 house	nmod:poss
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 mayor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mayor	det
14	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sent	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
24	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	advcl
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 something	acl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive	the mayor	a messenger		the meantime	to banns's house	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in meantime=Destination
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the mayor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	must	banns		mayor		immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	have	past	head	something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	head not said here	something not said here	banns			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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