Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 2
They had only lately arrived, yet the miller had paid them a visit, and informed them of Babette's engagement to Rudy.
Who acts: godmother, Babette · What happens: arrive, pay, inform, engage · To what, where: miller, godmother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, Babette), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 paid | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 paid | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 miller | det |
| 9 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 paid | aux |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrived | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 paid | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 visit | det |
| 14 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 informed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 informed | cc |
| 17 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 informed | iobj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 engagement | case |
| 20 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 engagement | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Babette | case |
| 22 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 informed | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Rudy | case |
| 24 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 engagement | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | godmother | lately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | past · perfect · passive | the miller | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | inform speech: other | past | godmother not said here | godmother | of Babette's engagement to Rudy | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of engagement=Topic | |||
| 4 | engage | Babette | to Rudy | nom engagement «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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