Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 53
The mayor's great dinner-party to-day ought to have been put off, but the news came too late.
Who acts: news · What happens: put off, come · To what, where: great dinner party
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 (news), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 party | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mayor | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 party | amod |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 party | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dinner | punct |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 party | nmod |
| 11 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 put | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 put | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 put | aux:pass |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 put | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | advcl |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 late | advmod |
| 23 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 came | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | ought · perfect · passive | the mayor's great dinner party to day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the news | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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