Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 19
Christina's father invited him to go for a sail in his boat; and the evening before, he accompanied the boatman across the heath to his house.
Who acts: father, Ib · What happens: invite, go, accompany · To what, where: Ib, boat, boatman, heath
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 (father, Ib), 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 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Christina | case |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | nsubj |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invited | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sail | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sail | det |
| 10 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 evening | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 evening | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 evening | det |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 evening | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accompanied | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 accompanied | nsubj |
| 21 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boatman | det |
| 23 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accompanied | obj |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 heath | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heath | det |
| 26 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accompanied | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accompanied | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | Christina's father | Ib | evening | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | father's boat | for a sail | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sail=Theme in boat=Location | |||
| 3 | accompany | past | father | the boatman | the heath | to father's house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boatman=Theme across heath=Destination |
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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