Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 55

But before the great people went in to dinner, she was called in and spoken to very graciously.

Who acts: great people · What happens: go in, call in, speak · To what, where: dinner, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great people), 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	_	13 called	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 called	advcl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 called	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spoken	cc
16	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 called	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 graciously	case
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 graciously	advmod
19	graciously	graciously	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 spoken	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go in	past	the great people		dinner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location
2	call in speech: assert	past · passive		end		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	speak speech: other	participle				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to graciously=Co-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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