Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 100
She had come to pay them a visit, and to spend the day.
Who acts: mother · What happens: come, pay, spend · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 visit | det |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spend | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spend | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 spend | mark |
| 12 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spend | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | mother not said here | door | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset | ||||
| 3 | spend | to-infinitive | mother not said here | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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